June 16, 2008

Banned foods available in UK

It is a serious matter food, especially as these days there is much talk about the amount of food that people are eating, but really it should be the types of food that we are eating. We consider ourselves a nation that knows what it wants, but to we really get what we want?

It seems that despite all of the various attempts to make us eat healthily there are products, which are banned in Europe but still widely in use in this country. It is called Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (HVO) and is used in many of the products that take us back to childhood.

HVO is a very dangerous product, it has been estimated that two grams per day can increase the risk of heart disease by twenty three per cent; two grams of HVO can be found in one doughnut!

Despite how potentially dangerous this product can be it can be found in many items that are bought on a regular basis, such as Quality Street chocolates, Horlicks, Knorr stock cubes, Angel Delight dessert, Cadbury Heroes, some Nestlé and Mars confectionery, Batchelors Cup a Soups and even Haliborange Omega-3 Fish Oil capsules for children.

Source [Independent]