Does anybody know why the same food in Europe and the US have different ingredients? eg. Nutella,yogurt.?

Answer 1

My guess is that MOST American food companies target people with sweet tooths. Everything is sweet and sweetened over here. What isn't sweet is very salty.

Europeans are better at appreciating savory tasting foods. They also make better use of the seasoning spectrum.

Answer 2

Yogurt I know of the other I had to look up. Nutella sounds yummy! We have different ingredients cause American company's are greedy and use the cheapest with the longest shelf life. Not much is fresh here!

Answer 3

It's interesting the "preferences" that emerge when comparing European and American foods. It usually comes down to favoring what you're used to, or a bias for or against one culture or the other. Stereotypes also color how people "think" the food tastes. People jump to conclusions about Americans' alleged sweet tooth, and assume that American food is sweeter. This ignores the fact that European kids, rather than eating peanut butter on white bread like American kids, eat sugary Nutella on sugary bread/cake as a meal or snack. Another example, European Coke is sweeter and flatter than the American Coke.

Answer 4

Sometimes it comes down to regulations - i.e. chocolate in Europe and Canada actually has to be of higher quality than in the U.S. which can be more "waxy".

Sometimes it's what the manufacturer has deemed to be "consumer preference" - which explains why U.S. ketchup tastes sweeter. They alter the recipe to suit the country in which the product is distributed.

If the manufacturer can get away with cheaper ingredients, they will.

Answer 5

People around the world have different taste standards. Chocolate is much sweeter in the US than most places. Global corporations track the flavors that different regions prefer. The change the formulas slightly to fit these preferences.

Answer 6

Availability and cost-- eg, sugar vs corn syrup, soybean oil vs sunflower oil. Also, some ingredients are called different things in different countries, even those who speak the same language. Gelatin= Gelatine, carageenan= seaweed extract, etc. Heck, we can't even agree on a nickname for a television...

Answer 7

''U.S. culture is different from European culture,'' said Lorenzo Consoli, a Greenpeace expert on genetic engineering. ''Here, there is a very strong feeling that links culture and food. And here there is much more the idea that science is not church or a religion. It is not enough anymore for European consumers to have somebody with a white coat, a professional, say it's O.K.''

Answer 8

One reason is that the laws are different. Another is that Europeans generally prefer that products like yogurt, ice cream, cheese etc have actually some diary products in them.

Answer 9

Different import export laws, and we have the FDA here to regulate what can and can't go into our food..

Answer 10

probably because us americans add so many preservatives, etc. in foods :)