Haggis is a sausage-like mix of offal encased in an animal's stomach, typically sheep. Per the most traditional recipes, haggis contains lungs, the consumption of which is illegal in the U.S. In response, several Scottish companies have started making lung-less haggis right here in the U.S.
Froot Loops
Unfortunately, these Fruit Loops are banned in the European Union. If you think those bright colors come from natural sources, think again. And this is precisely why fruit loops are banned in the EU because they contain potentially harmful artificial dyes, including yellow 5 and red 40.
What foodstuffs can I not take into Australia? Foods that are prohibited unless accompanied by a valid Import Permit include beans, peas, cereal seeds, eggs, fresh fruit and vegetables, uncanned meat and all pork products, milk, popping corn, raw unroasted nuts, whole salmon and trout.
A new California bill aims to ban the use of red dye No. 3 and four other chemicals in food products due to potential risks like carcinogenic effects, memory loss, behavioral issues and reproductive problems. A close-up of a bowl of Skittles.
Today, Olestra and any products fried in it such as Doritos Light, remain banned in several countries, such as parts of Europe and Canada. Frito-Lay was forced to abandon its practice of cooking with Olestra, instead focusing on more conventional methods of selling healthy chips, such as Baked Lays, for example.
The culprit of this ban is the hydrogenated cottonseed oil ingredient in the crackers, which is a type of trans fat. This trans fat is an odorless and colorless oil created in the refinement process of vegetable oil and can be responsible for heart attacks and even death.
You won't find haggis on this side of the pond, however, as the US banned all foods containing lungs in 1971. Why ban lungs when other organs are OK? According to the FDA, funky fluids like stomach acid make their way into animals' lungs during slaughter, making them unfit for human consumption.
Forbidden food substances include alcohol, pork, carrion, the meat of carnivores and animals that died due to illness, injury, stunning, poisoning, or slaughtering not in the name of God.
Kinder Eggs
Both have been banned in the U.S. thanks to a 1938 federal law that doesn't allow toys and other non-edible objects from being embedded within food products since it proves to be a choking hazard. Apparently it's just U.S. kids that don't know how to handle a toy inside a chocolate egg.
Traditional 'Brie' in France, named for the region it comes from, is a creamy cheese made from cow's milk. But what makes French Brie different is that it is raw (or unpasteurized). The FDA requires that Brie coming from Europe must be heated as part of the process of sterilization before being sold in stores.
In 1974 the (then) three commercially shot kangaroo species were listed as threatened on the US Endangered Species Act. [1] The US Fish and Wildlife Service banned the importation of those species in the same year.
Tartrazine is a permitted food colour in both Australia and New Zealand.
Wheat Thins and cereals like Frosted Flakes are banned in the United Kingdom, Japan and parts of Europe because of a chemical called BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene), which is used as a flavor enhancer.
Gatorade. This sports drink claims to replenish electrolytes, but it also contains food dyes Yellow 5 and Yellow 6. These artificial colors are banned in foods for infants and children in the European Union, and they must also carry warnings on all other products there. They are completely banned in Norway and Austria.
So what products is it in? You'll find titanium dioxide on Aussie shelves in everything from certain corn chips, toothpaste, pot noodles and mayo to a swathe of confectionary faves. It's in Skittles for one, but also M&M's, Jelly Belly jelly beans and the beloved Cadbury's Humpty Dumpty Easter egg.
Titanium dioxide gives some types of candy their smooth texture and bright color. It's used in Skittles, Starburst, Sour Patch Kids, Swedish Fish and Trolli gummies.
94 per cent of Australians aren't getting their recommended daily intake of fruit and vegetables, according to the latest data on dietary behaviours released by the Australia Bureau of Statistics this morning.
And the winner (or fat gainer, should we say) is…. Red Rooster with its Bacon and Cheese Rippa single meal. This substantial meal packs a kilojoule-lade kapow with 7,730kj per serve, which is a whopping 89 per cent of the average adult daily energy intake.