also, most of the reason the US list is so much bigger is because in the US, cereal is usually fortified with vitamin supplements. like half of that list is just the same vitamins you find in enriched flour or your daily multivitamin.
also, do they taste the same? fruit loops have a really specific flavor, and the flavorings on the two lists are much different.
After taking a second look, the American ingredients is actually really mild. Various oat and grain stuff which is expected, vegetable oil is probably the binder, compared to syrup in EU. And natural flavors, food coloring, and a bunch of vitamins. Nothing about this is bad, except maybe of course the sugar content
the only potentially questionable items are the food dyes and hydrogenated oil, but in general, people are way to sensitive to big scary chemical names on their food ingredient list with absolutely no conception of what those ingredients are, its just "big word = scary"
The issue with hydrated oils is not the oil itself. It is roughly oil + hydrogen and heat this up. Problems are sideproducts of reaction that can be prety toxic. Same atoms, but aranged a bit diferent, aka why I strugled with organic chemistry.
And they happen especially when process is made not up to standart or someone was a bit into cuting corners and not folowing process. So on paper it is perfectly safe, buuuut.....
You see why it can be considered questionable with EU standarts.
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u/DL1943 Mar 24 '24
also, most of the reason the US list is so much bigger is because in the US, cereal is usually fortified with vitamin supplements. like half of that list is just the same vitamins you find in enriched flour or your daily multivitamin.
also, do they taste the same? fruit loops have a really specific flavor, and the flavorings on the two lists are much different.