Milk and baby formula are made from Melanin Food & medicine capsules is made leather boots Dimsung is made from cartoon Oil is made from gutter oil Fruits are soaked with toxic preservatives and sweeteners. Anything left I forgot?
The claim of Carrageenan is interesting, because that is used all over the world, Ben and Jerry's use it. While Carrageenan would indeed slow the speed of ice cream melting, to be able to torch and burn it, seems there is more going on than the company admits too, that or an excessive amount was used. It is an extract from red seaweed.
I work in a big food factory in California and the amount of sanitation and testing that goes into our food is insane. Every ingredient we buy requires a certificate of analysis which is basically an extensive lab test that proves the ingredients are safe. The factory itself has to be extremely clean and the lines are constantly washed. If someone were to get sick from the food, they could sue which could cost the company millions, or even billions of dollars and would ruin the company's reputation. It's crazy how these Chinese companies get away with this.
The excessive testing is so the government steal more via tax. Normal vet and biochemist testing is enough, but they usually go way overboard. Now they adding the Jewish and Muslim religious stuff to, which also cost money. And china? Well, that's how heavy socialism is, extremely inefficient and corrupt.
FWIW, most of the health problems China has are localized to China. Everyone else has standards that must be met for that imported food to meet - and even China has to meet that standard, or they get turned away. Also, interestingly, the carrageenan/non-burning-ice cream stuff are both misunderstandings of some mundane chemistry and both are safe to eat. Or, at least, not dangerous for the reasons stated. Yes, weirdly enough, non-melting ice cream is normal - but only when exposed to extremely high temperatures. Basically it evaporates, rather than melts. It doesn't look like anything is going away but if you keep it up you'll eventually notice it shrinking. The "burning" is just chemicals from the lighter getting onto the food.
this ice cream doesn't melt because it uses high technology that ordinary human beings wouldn't understand. Just look at the price tag, it tells you everything about the quality. From Wumao army
I know this isn’t a laughing matter, but the dude hitting the ice cream with a blowtorch and seeing it just straight up burn and not melt has me crying 💀
I mean, it is kind of a laughing matter. Carrageenan is completely harmless and is the reason cheap ice creams like Great Value brand from WalMart have a bit of a weird texture and melt funny. It's a thickening agent derived from red seaweed that's been extensively studied since it first saw common use in the 1950s. This company just seems to be using a lot more than is in Great Value.
I lived in China for 5 years and I knew about the food scams before I went. I tried to always eat in reputable restaurants and even McDonalds and avoided any kind of street food or food from odd, small restaurants. I would learn while living in Shanghai that even reputable places fall victim to fake & contaminated foods, foods with fake labels (like Australian beef in a grocery store that's not actually Australian beef). When I moved away last year, I discovered that my liver function was way, way outside of normal. It's a scary thing and my feeling is that it was caused there. I've been away for a year now and I'll wait another year and be retested. I hope it gets better. I very truly feel for the Chinese people. The CCP is completely incompetent and appears to have very little interest in protecting the population from nefarious people. While there, I remember one story about an old man selling black mud flakes as pepper. He was arrested and sent to jail by the police, but his thought was that since he wasn’t killing anyone, he shouldn’t go to jail.
It's not the first time central governent state has food that is basically poison- Soviet Union had the same issue. Horrid powdered milk, questionable quality whipped cream etc etc Most of this is usually done due yo lacks in ingredients that are edible so these coutries relapse to the same tricks as in Victorian era Britain- stuff on level of toxic sht in bread to make it look more appealing
I mentioned this in a previous video on the subject, but it bears repeating: If this is what they will sell to their own countrymen, imagine what they'd be willing to sell to you.
@@benben162 Are you brain damaged or something? Australia has more than enough capability to support itself in food production. WE'RE the ones exporting tons of food to China!
@@zoe9632 products? China practically own a big portion of Australia. They have been buying up, ports, mines, electricity, real estate and businesses of every kind. They have been doing the same thing in many countries. If they do succeed in taking over, the world will be in a real life squid games courtesy of china. God help us.
I'm from New Zealand and I remember with the melamine scandal, NZ was heavily involved because it was alleged that one of the factories adding the chemical had purchased NZ milk as one of their raw ingredients to incorporate, and were trying to pin the problem on NZ company Fonterra (biggest milk company & exporter) and if forced them to do extensive and very expensive tests to prove the issue wasn't at Fonterra's end. It wasn't (obviously) and I think that Fonterra subsequentally sued, like,,, everyone involved.... and then that caused a minor incident because china is one of NZ's largest trading partners.... yikes, is all I say.
I'm in Australia and I'd like to thank, New Zealand for the wonderful butter and milk power! As far as Chinese companies are concerned, they will never own up to any responsibility! I've noticed that supermarkets here do sell Chinese produced goods, such as tinned fruit. I always try to avoid buying any food product from China.
When you showed people laddling oil from the sewer into buckets which were being used to cook food, I knew there were no limits to how far people will go. If that's not bottom, I don't know what is 🤷♀️
Bottom was making baby formula that gives kidney stones to BABIES!! Kidney stones feels like being stabbed, no joke!!! I broke my leg and collarbone... but the time i got kidney stones i went to the ER thinking KILL ME or FIX ME whatever get my out of this pain. Unbearable. Imagine that pain with the inability to communicate .... Pure evil.
And China dares to call the Japanese "unsophisticated" ... In comparison anyone can see just how clean careful and meticulous the Japanese are with growing preparing packaging and shipping food ...
Japanese tourists are so polite and reserved Chinese tourists are so obnoxiously stupid and irritating they're so bad they're called "locusts" because they ruin everything they laid their eyes on
Makes me wonder what crap was in my ramen noodles back in the day. It's not like these issues are isolated it's been happening for decades. Gotta hope my brand was at least from Japan and not China. Lol
@@nomore-constipation mostly made from Korea and Japan, so don't worry, except don't take too much as it's high sodium, that's the only thing you need to worry about :D
If my memory is correct, Trader Joe's specifically announces it won't sell food products from China. It's no wonder every time I go there, it's always packed.
Tray-Jays has good stuff, on the same level as Kirkland in my opinion. The gniocci, chunky salsa, unsalted chips, new york cheese cake, and pesto are my favorites
The only places you’ll find Chinese-made foods are Chinese supermarkets, Walmart and budget grocery stores. Most higher end grocery stores, Korean or Japanese grocery store will not touch any food products or produce from China. Personally I’d never buy a food product from China.
There was a shortage of cooking oil in China a number of years back. A friend in the merchant navy, on a stopover in China, watched ppl open sewers & go in to collect the grease that had collected from ppl pouring old cooking oil down sinks & sewer grates. They were passing it out in the bucket load, he never ate in restaurants or off street vendors from then on.
The coin of science has yet to drop, culturally, in China. it's scary that they're on a level with the developed world. It's dangerous and wrong to financially reward it.
Just wanted to add- I used to work in the food industry. Xantham gum is very commonly used as a thickener outside of China too. It's used to conserve consistency. Like you know if you make a sauce and some of the heavier ingredients settle out, this gum stops that. So yeah I guarantee some sort of thickener is used in tomato sauce, bbq sauce, etc. You have definitely eaten this before. So don't be concerned if Xantham is in your food, be concerned if the food or any of it's ingredients are from China.
As a kiwi, its really annoying when these dairy scandals come out, they often try to blame foreign companies for dodgey ingredients or botulism. NZ/Aus spend something like 2billion a year repairing brand reputation that has been damaged by various chinese scandals, or china simply putting 'made in nz/aus' on their products.
Gotta start a once-a-week changing QR code or bar code or something to verify authenticity. Basically make it so they would have to predict the QR code or Bar code to make a full fake.
Decades ago, the Chinese companies would put UL (the old logo) on their products even though they hadn't been inspected by Underwriters Laboratories. Or fake "Made in " labels. Chinese water is polluted, so how much of this polluted water is used to process chinese food products or even goes into the food products?
@Thisis Gettinboring Yep. They have local buyers called "Daigou" (a personal professional shopper). These women generally will go into supermarkets and raid the products of the day, like baby formula / gloves / masks etc. whatever is hot and in demand back in China by the well off. They have multiple people, and will take as much as they can get usually, because the more they can get and ship, the more profit they can make. If left unrestricted, they will clear the shelves in minutes / hours, as they get there first thing in the morning etc. They target certain brands, but will sometimes take the lower profit items too. With the baby formula they will get the receipt, and stick that to the formula can before shipping, to prove it was bought in Australia etc. and that it is not fake (there is an industry in China in fake formula cans etc). They might buy it here for $20-30 then re-sell it to the Chinese buyer for $90 or $100, minus whatever shipping costs. Lately the more organized businesses upped their game, and just buy pallets of baby formula on consignment, and re-export it to rich Chinese buyers. Intercepting it before it enters the local supply chain. In boom times, they will go to multiple shopping centres if there are buyer limits so they can get as much as possible. The baby formula shelves were often empty here with Western women walking around complaining they couldn't get the baby formula they needed, sometimes the supermarket staff would hold back some cans. It wasn't that there was a shortage of formula as such, the supermarkets just don't have loads of pallets sitting around, they need to ship / truck them in from the suppliers like Bellamy's Organic. etc. They also tried buying out toilet paper and re-selling that for a profit locally, during the pandemic, but don't think that went as well. One woman was busted with a house crammed full of it... hah.
I don't believe that the mooncakes were filled with cotton because cotton is actually quite expensive. Perhaps it was a cheaper synthetic fabric. Cardboard seems to be a very common bun filler I've heard about.
I'm going to have to sort out my food cupboards and pay more attention to labelling in supermarkets. Thanks for letting us know about these problems with Chinese food. Must be awful for the Chinese people to know they have little choice but to buy foods that are likely contaminated.
I would recommand to visit Taiwan instead of Communist China. Taiwan is such a beautiful country. I really recommend it to you. The food is of such good quality and the culture is amazing. People are so nice and friendly to foreigners and they love to help you if you have any problem. I‘m from Germany and this is what I have experienced there.
Joke on you. Walmart had it for years. And hospitals often use it to provide "ice cream" for patients with muscular disorder that will choke if they try to swallow something too thin.
@@DLlama Why? Carrageenan is a perfectly safe food ingredient according to FDA. There is nothing in "unmelting ice cream" except that people are not used to it. Of course, just as any other food stuff, don't eat too much it, you'll get fat with any bad things that come with it. If you want to find wrong in it, at best you can accuse them of "it's just a frozen pudding, marketed as ice cream".
@@mephtec I mean go there and verify how fucked up it is, then come back and tell everyone, the CPP is an idea it's and idealogy, no one believes it until they see it.
If anything China is literally what the game Cyberpunk warns us of becoming. From food, to atmosphere, to buildings being shoddy and easily collapsable, to literally everything.
It does not explain why their mobile phones & 5G work so well, their bridges, highest buildings, trains, drones & space crafts are so incredibly advanced. Yeah, they do have quite a lot of faults still, but the world improve with each passing moment.
There's a science behind melting ice cream and ice and snow with a lighter, I don't remember how exactly but not all ice and ice cream just melts under high heat. But the fact they left it out in 30c+ heat for an hour and it still didn't melt is terrifying
Yea, even ice doesn't just instantly melt from direct fire. The intense, direct heat melts a layer of ice but then the water that was created absorbs the heat of the fire, preventing other ice from melting until the water evaporates (evaporative cooling is extremely efficient). The real smoking gun is leaving it at 30C for over an hour. There has to be an immense amount of chemical fuckery for them to have "achieved" that.
The heat from a flame is too hot, it burns instead of melts. The same went viral with snow like you said and also people were doing it with cheeses too
“Even if it’s not fine, pay more attention to it in your next life.” That’s the golden quote there 😂 I’m sincerely concerned how people treat lives when they say something like this Don’t cut corners.
My goodness, I worked in Italy in a farm with packaging machines. Everytime we had to enter the chambers I couldn't believe I was going to process food and not doing a brain surgery..
Used to work at a grocery store and every day we would have Chinese businessmen and women coming in and clearing us out of our baby formula. It got to the point that we had to limit it pretty customer because our regular customers couldn't get any. Nobody at work knew what they wanted so much baby formula but now it makes sense
The Chinese people are extremely wary of baby formula after a company there was putting a cheap bulk chemical in their formula that appeared to be a protein when analyzed, but in reality it was poisoning the kids. The owners of the company were severely punished but the damage was done, nobody in China trusts their domesticly produced baby formula anymore, which is probably why the supply issues have been happening worldwide.
I don't know what country you are from, but in Australia stripping our shelves of baby formula was common. It was quite often organised too. People would go out and take everything they could, and bring it back to a central place. They would be paid for this work. Then the formula was put into comtainers and sent to c hina to sell at a great profit. Closing our borders due to the pandemic stopped this. Not forgotten though.
I live in Australia and I remember we had a massive issue with people buying baby formula and exporting it to china. it got so bad I would have to call around multiple places each week just to find a single tub available then I would get them to put it behind the counter for me why I drove sometimes an hour away to pick it up.
Yes. I have seen whole Chinese families come into stores seperately to not look as buying formula above quota allowed They sell on internet at highly marked up prices. Real bad behaviour that has been allowed to continue for many years.
Damnn, didn't realise it happened overseas too :0 I used to live in Hong Kong, and just a few train stops away from China. I remember people just hating on Chinese people and called them locusts because of their behaviour. Literally cleared out all the baby formula and other imported products to a point that the local mothers aren't able to feed their children.
Im so glad that here in Switzerland where i live, we have VERY strict food regulations so I never had any health issues in the over 12 years that i have lived here, we don't take any risks here and I'm talking from personal experience from working in a takeaway, here you have to state everything inside the food/drinks and country of origin as well, lying about these things can lead to heavy fines and even loss of your business
FWIW, most of the health problems China has are localized to China. Everyone else has standards that must be met for that imported food to meet - and even China has to meet that standard, or they get turned away. Also, interestingly, the carrageenan/non-burning-ice cream stuff are both misunderstandings of some mundane chemistry and both are safe to eat. Or, at least, not dangerous for the reasons stated. Yes, weirdly enough, non-melting ice cream is normal - but only when exposed to extremely high temperatures. Basically it evaporates, rather than melts. It doesn't look like anything is going away but if you keep it up you'll eventually notice it shrinking. The "burning" is just chemicals from the lighter getting onto the food.
My family is in the cattle export business here in Australia, a little while ago we found out that china was selling lots of boxes of "Australian beef" to other countries which turned out to actually be buffalo meat.
Crazy! Bison tastes so different. Or maybe I am confusing North American Bison vs water Buffalo. American Bison is delicious! And if you are brave try some Rocky Mountain Oysters!!
@TrollToll u wouldnt think that a little fried crown jewel would be that good, but if u get the idea of nuts out of ur mind theyre actually pretty fucking good man 😂
they also sell argentine royal honey to other countries as a fraction of the real one wonder what does it have lol it probably does that with all the countries like ur beef
and they banned taiwanese food imports? it's important to read the labels on food packaging. here in australia, a lot of big brand lollies/candies like chuppachups, mentos, etc are actually made in china.. even mcdonald's sweet and sour sauce 😵
@@CajunPride777 you can google it. there's a picture of the australian mcdonald's sweet n sour sauce with "made in china" written on the label and that's what i noticed too on my sauce before. although i just checked the sauce that i just got recently, made in china is no longer on the label. i don't know if they have moved the production elsewhere or they're just not putting it on the label anymore 🤷♀️
my dad works in the construction industry, and he told me that once when he went to china to source for materials, a supplier asked him what he was going to use a certain material for, because apparently some food companies had used them in their products 😭
The hell do you mean different countries get 'different health standards' for customs? As a consumer I should at least know which countries are legally allowed to sell me garbage so I can know to not eat them.
I lived with my relatives for a few months in the past in China. They drink bottled water and all of their food is either imported or bought in high end supermarkets. They are really paranoid about their cat’s food as well.
Thats why I would recommand you to visit Taiwan instead of Communist China. Taiwan is such a beautiful country. I really recommend it to you. The food is of such good quality and the culture is amazing. People are so nice and friendly to foreigners and they love to help you if you have any problem. I‘m from Germany and this is what I have experienced there.
I went to China in the 1990's before it changed to the "modern" way of life. It was in Beijing, we ate at this restaurant that was supposed to have good reviews and the food was indeed good. Before we left I popped into the kitchen to have a look at the "facilities". My God I was shocked, dirty, smelly, horrible place in every possible way you could think off, badly lit, painted in many different colours that was flaking down the also black and moldy walls, it looked like it could have been a cellar used for decades of torture in a forgotten back street of Moscow. I could not believe that the food had come out of this place. And this was a place with "good reputation"?? I understood that the Chinese mentality of food hygiene was totally different from what I was used to, I still believe the Chinese are far behind on these matters, I have never gone back to China, and will never do either, the way the country is run and managed is a disgrace to humanity.
ah yes, being shocked that a 3rd world country just out of war was poor and dirty and criticizing them for it. this is exactly the type of ignorance people in other countries dislike about americans
@Ox Stong Vietnam has much better business regulations and cleaner standards than China and they were at war for most of the 20th century and lost millions of people. China has no excuse other than having no standards and a culture of corruption where no one is held accountable.
@@OxStong as they said, they were shocked at the kitchen, idc where your from if the kitchen is dirty beware of the food. And yes they should be critical about where they eat, it makes sense just so ya know not to eat there again.
"pay more attention to it in your next life" Damn they poison you and then gaslight you into thinking it's your fault, all while charging you gourmet prices
I regularly shop in Asian grocery stores and I've noticed the cancer warning on all white pepper coming from over there. Same with a lot of spices and flavorings in general. It's on the label
@@philipsmi-lenguyen8155 Vietnamese food isn't much better. Lots of Vietnamese fruits are washed in chemicals just like in China and there are very little regulations for food safety
The label was like “hey! this contain substance that cause reproductive harm and cancer so eat at your own risk. We don’t ban them cause money. If you get sick, also money to us. Don’t try to sue cause we clearly warn you.”
Makes me wonder what crap was in my ramen noodles back in the day. It's not like these issues are isolated it's been happening for decades. Gotta hope it was at least from Japan and not China. Lol
@@MidKnight_Dragon I believe he was referring to food exported to countries such as here in the U.S. where they go through higher quality control. I have much more trust than those from China. There are also baby formula made from Vietnamese company (Nutifood) imported to the U.S. after passing very stringent standards and requirements. From China, that is not even possible. Domestic food safety in Vietnam is not so high, but not near the fake and harmful levels of China.
California grows garlic, but if one goes to local supermarket, California garlic is hard to find. Instead, one finds garlic imported from China. It has no smell and kind of glows eerily white. Almost fluorescent.
It's gross. California has a city Gillroy where it used to be a huge garlic supplier all over the country. I hate seeing Chinese food sold when we clearly grown enough of our own and don't need any of it. Something to do with trade & money. They buy from us, we buy from them.The Chinese garlic is old,musty,dried out. It's completely inferior. Also it's dyed. Tell your store you want garlic from the US.
This is how China treats their own citizens. Think again about trusting food or medicines exported from China. Read the labels, before buying anything.
Speaking for myself, I'm never eating any food imported from China ever again. I wonder if there is some kind of resource that helps identify what companies and products use food stuffs from China?
you should be fine 99% of the time even the imported items from china that you see on some store shelves are fine because imported items still go through a considerable amount of quality control it might be hard to believe but china wouldnt dare export stuff like this because it would be bad for their economy if countries would stop buying stuff from them you should be more worried about local foodborne outbreaks instead
@@Irving_teran Well, major Chinese brands you see in Chinese American stores, go though the FDA, if they exported a batch toxic famous international brand soy sauce, if that got reported, it would be an instant outrage across the world. The documentary refers to the majority MAINLAND China.
I went to a marketplace the other day and they had signs telling me that the garlic I was looking to buy came directly from China. I didn't want to be "that person", but something in me told me to avoid buying it and apparently, a lot of other people had the same notion, for there was a lot of that garlic still sitting on the shelf.
I stopped buying shiitake mushrooms from China. While the mushrooms naturally contain the chemical in formaldehyde, opening the bag was like being in a dissection lab. Unnatural. I later did some searching and found that some Chinese companies would add formaldehyde to the mushrooms to give the illusion of added potency. Gross. Having switched to one’s grown and processed in the US, Korea, or Japan, I’ve not had an issue like this happen again.
I feel so sad and distressed seeing this. I really wanted to visit China and see their historical sites, experience their culture. I even started learning chinese for that. But watching this channel's videos on China has been a dream shattering experience. What's wrong with this country? It feels like a dystopian society , everything is fake and hides some terrible secret. So different from what i imagined China to be like.
One detail to note that was left somewhat unclear in the video: Carrageenan has a degree of scientific evidence pointing towards its health hazards. Xanthan gum however does not have any such evidence, the only health hazard currently known involving it would be something like these Chinese imported foods where either something toxic was mixed in or the food processing was otherwise unsafe (e.g. salmonella contamination). Xanthan gum produced through normal, healthy means is approved for human consumption in both the EU and US. There's no need to be alarmed just because something has xantham gum in it, but it should raise questions about the origins of the ingredients seeing how China is the largest exporter of it. In the end it's just one ingredient used in food processing, there are many others that work very similarly that are used widely in the business as well.
Similarly, *ALL* of the studies that say vaping is dangerous were testing Chinese-made counterfeit CBD and cannabis products, not nicotine pods or juices made in USA. "Popcorn lung" is because of these practices, not Juul. I'm sorry the media lied to your face and made parents freak out about vapes for no reason other than farming clicks. So, when some politician says some dumb sh*t like "I want to end the administrative state!" *REMEMBER THIS!!*
I don't understand why food can't just be food why it has to be all these nasty chemicals and freaking weather shoes and all the stuff can't food just be food and nothing else?
I've had a similar experience with Blue Bunny ice cream in the US. I didn't use a blowtorch, but it didn't melt at room temperature. At a restaurant I work at we ran out of shredded cheddar. We sent a guy to the store to pick up a few bags, he got the cheapest available. It wouldn't melt. Even when we dropped it directly on the flattop grill it took several minutes. Check labels. Look at how much "Ice cream" is actually labeled "frozen dessert". Or peanut butter is "peanut spread". These aren't foods, they are non toxic food (supposedly) like substances.
I always make my own peanut butter these days, it's way better and you know exactly what it is. Literally all you need to do is throw roast peanuts and salt in a food processor and let it run for a few minutes.
@@LikaLaruku This didn't melt on a 350° grill for several minutes. I've seen cheese, especially cheap stuff that has a lot of oil and other processing ingredients sweat before melting. This didn't do that. It was more like plastic. I think it was intended to be served cold, like on top of a salad. God knows what it does inside a human body.
It's because no one holds them accountable. If it is profitable, it will continue. Batch up some cheap ingredients with compounds that make them look and taste more nutritious, then sell for a premium price.
@@thestrangegreenman Sadly it is probably more sinister than that. The people in real power have other plans beyond worrying on profit and may encourage some evil practices. Happens in the West also which is why sugar is added to pretty much everything.
For profits. In earlier times in US, the smoking companies would mislead the community about how safe smoking was. Petroleum companies also sold leaded petrol, and hid the dangers from the people.
@@BonVoyage861 I doubt it's more sinister than profit. The people running the factories that recycle old shoes into gelatin have made a ton of money and live like royalty. They don't want to give that lifestyle up. Same goes for selling substandard milk with melamine added to fool nutritional analyses into thinking it actually has protein in it. All you need is a total lack of a soul and away you go.
I work at a grocery store, we display the source of the produce next to the prices. Chinese products are always suspiciously appealing. There are bad loads of apples, bruised pears, squishy avocados, but from China the carrots garlic and fruit are always pristine. It makes me highly suspicious of how they are grown.
in europe( even in the us ithink )60% of canned bean corn even fish even organic ()etc.food is made in China and the importer has not to declare its origin if the canned food was pasteurised or was mixed with other indriegens (ketchup pastasauce etc)
@@hfhxshjc4045 If it's processed in an American factory, then it is probably safe to eat. USA companies must submit all their food products for lab testing
Here in Australia.... for YEARS Australian Chinese buy out our baby milk stock, leaving shelves empty. They ship to China with a MASSIVE markup. Many of our dairies are Chinese owned with products shipped straight to China. These dairies are not run the way they should 😤
Immigrant's should be held to a high standard of loyalty to their host country and required to integrate. Multicultural ideology has led to the west throwing wide it's gates to enemy infiltrators whose loyalty isvto their homeland and only purpose is to exploit our superior nations. We have problems like this with foreigners in America as well.
@TrollToll they have the same chance/opportunity as Chinese Aussies do to clear supermarket shelves & onsell to China. Even with that opportunity ... it's never non Asian Aussies that do! There's plenty of video evidence of it happening.
This is extremely disturbing. It's not exactly news to me but a very important reminder to carefully consider what I consume. (I think it was on here I saw how cooking oil was recycled from sewers. Mental) Where I am in Africa, as with many African countries, we eat fresh day in day out and are conscious of where everything comes from. If it doesn't grow around me..not interested.
It's not suprising for me, since I'm from what used to be Communist Block (Poland to be exact) so I know how goverments who try to hide shortages in supplies act
right you are! we made corn 🌽 on the cob last week .. my husband completely it was chewy & mushy. my oldest reminded him that LOCAL corn was NOT in season. in my home country, family still looks forward to celebrating certain fruits & vegetables being in season. in USA cities.. we have forgotten that.
@@masterzoroark6664 I suspect that things are much different now in Poland; especially with regulatory standards adopted from the E.U. (which has its own problems but less with matching supply and demand and more with arbitrary standards). The China problem is a factor of its size/scale coupled with its inability and unwillingness to effectively regulate. If supply is unable to meet demand at any point the effects are always exaggerated. This problem will almost certainly remain unchecked (domestically) for a long time-decades even. Imagine it this way, the very poor quality or even harmful produce/food that makes its way into the international market is made in China - why would what is available domestically be any different? It's a real cyclical problem.
@@emmapeel8163 Exactly! Funny you should mention corn cause I particularly like corn season. Once it's time, it's everywhere, it's cheap and it's tasty. It may seem convenient to opt for packaged food from a supermarket but, unless you live in the desert, it's equally easy to go to a farmers' market and get what's in season.
I used to work for a worldwide soft serve ice cream company in Australia and they bought all of their milk powder from China. I wouldn't eat soft serve ice cream if I were you.
I remember when one Chinese businessman tried to hustle tons of Philippine old 5 peso coins but was caught. An incident occur too when they tried to bring in their plastic rice. And that happens because Philippine government is not that competitive. Shame. What. Shame
This video reminds me of a novel written by Upton Sinclair called The Jungle that was written in 1906. This novel described horrible and unsanitary conditions in meat packing plants in the United States at that time in history.
And the uproar over the revelations in Sinclair's book led to the creation of the FDA which has been the federal watchdog for guaranteed safety in food and medicine production ever since.
@@codycigar6542 Oh everyone did. The writer was on the record of saying 'I tried to hit them in their hearts and instead hit them in their stomachs.' The dude HATED the fact that everyone missed the point of the novel in favor of their food.
I was reading the 19th Century writer Ji Yun, and he write a whole section scams, how vendors would alter, among other products, food. A roastes duck, for example, would ve hollowed and filled with scum and paper, then sold at full price. Some things never change, they get worse.
They probably made it not melt so they can easily store it without cooler expenses. The movie the founder mentioned how most businesses went out of business just because of the freezer expenses
@@letsreadtextbook1687 Ackhcually, some hospitals in USA also made their own version of unmelting ice cream using the same ingredients. It's for patients that have difficulties swallowing liquids. It's more of "frozen pudding" instead of "unmelting ice cream". That Chinese company should market it as such, but then again, there are no market for "frozen pudding".
I remember a few years ago a similar thing happened. It was a Walmart brand ice cream sandwich that was accidentally left outside in the summer. It didn't melt either
Same, while not at a Walmart, I did visit and shop at an American store that had my favorite flavor of ice cream. I had no problem at first, but then when I went to wash the spoon I scooped the ice cream with....the "cream" wouldn't melt, despite the fact that I was washing the spoon with hot water. I also had some left in my bowl and to stop my cat from eating it, I went to place the bowl in the sink and wash it. Hot water and all....the damn creature didn't melt!!! It took me forcing the beast down the drain with my hands in order for me to clean my bowl.
Kind of hurts to hear these things when you're someone who often partakes in the food of the cultures and your videos let me have really made me reconsider anything coming out of China from the clothes from having too much lead to the food might not even be safe like it almost feels like propaganda but it's the truth and it's due to corruption or relaxed standards but it also seems like that's just a product of them trying to feed a overpopulated nation
The heavy metal and carcinogen polluted water is used to irrigate the crops and raise the animals. Chances are it is also used in food processing because cleaning up that water costs money.
Is it propaganda if it’s true? Even Chinese people would tell you to avoid made in China, as they avoid it too if they can. The culture of corruption and “nothing matters but the bottom line” is rotting the country inside out.
Do the ingredients they use in Chinese food cooked in the USA are "Made in China"? Are the ingredients "Made in China" being tested after being shipped to the USA?
When going to school and living in China some years ago, I recall purchasing a "protein powder" from a brand with Yao Ming on the cover. When I stirred it into water, it became first a jelly like substance, turned from white to brown, and smelled very strange. I decided to experiment and leave out a glass of it for a few hours, when I returned, it separated and on top was a solid puck-like object that would not melt by flame or break by hammer and stomping. One of the students said not to drink it, that it would cause stomach pains. Fortunately I consumed none of it.
When I was in China, I also tried the local "protein powder" that was much cheaper than american whey protein. Thank God I didn't develop any cancer from drinking these stuff
"needs an official certificate.." right. like the Chinese companies don't simply fake a certificate? the EU & USA simply take their word about analyzing the products?!
Not only that but they circumnavigate the rules by exporting this rubbish to other 'lax' countries where it's re-labelled as coming from THAT country,the CCP pay lip service to EVERYTHING and they don't care about anything or anyone apart from themselves and power.
This is why I try to eat whole/ unprocessed foods. I know the US has inspections and safety standards, but they still allow pretty nasty stuff in our food. And as someone who has worked in many factories, they can be pretty disgusting and out dated.
I would recommand you to visit Taiwan instead of Communist China. Taiwan is such a beautiful country. I really recommend it to you. The food is of such good quality and the culture is amazing. People are so nice and friendly to foreigners and they love to help you if you have any problem. I‘m from Germany and this is what I have experienced there.
How can we in the west tell if our food contains chemicals from China or not? Should we all from now on use food heavy metal testing kits? for every meal? What about restaurants, cafes and bakeries? Do I dare to buy regular bread, or eat Thai food?
Even though we have regulations in the west, it is impossible to trace back all ingredients back to their origin simply because it is not required to do so in the labeling (at least in the US). Your best bet is to not buy any food that is chinese themed and is sold in chinese grocery stores and some other asian stores. Also, don't buy apple juice from walmart. They use apples from china. Google foods imported from china is also helpful.
As a general rule, food products from large manufacturers in the US like, Kraft, Nestlé, McCormick, Pepsi...etc all use ingredients from all over the world including China. So for US brands, you are better off going smaller and more local or just ask the brand's customer service what percentage of their ingredients come from China. And another general rule, Japanese food brands tend to stay away from Chinese ingredient companies, of course not always but a good amount do.
Also. FDA has strict guidance for heavy metals and pesticide/herbicide residues for imported food products. I think that's great to have, but FDA does not sample and test every shipment of food products that come into the US, unless they are repeat offenders which will often raise a red flag at the port of entry.
The one and only time I've ever had a metal piece (looked like a metal workshop steel Chip off a lathe) was when I got Chinese food... get this, in California. I always wondered how they could get their prices so low. I hope they aren't sourcing from places like this. I understand food mishaps happen all the time, everywhere
FWIW, most of the health problems China has are localized to China. Everyone else has standards that must be met for that imported food to meet - and even China has to meet that standard, or they get turned away. Also, interestingly, the carrageenan/non-burning-ice cream stuff are both misunderstandings of some mundane chemistry and both are safe to eat. Or, at least, not dangerous for the reasons stated. Yes, weirdly enough, non-melting ice cream is normal - but only when exposed to extremely high temperatures. Basically it evaporates, rather than melts. It doesn't look like anything is going away but if you keep it up you'll eventually notice it shrinking. The "burning" is just chemicals from the lighter getting onto the food.
@@DisgruntledArtist Although it must be extra hard for the local Chinese, there is no way we don't get import/exported products from there regardless. If Chinese food standards improve, by proxy through our globalized world, we will get better products too. I ultimately don't know where that eatery mentioned in the op got their ingredients from... and I thought at first they must have bought a new food processor lol edited for spelling
@@kalui96 Maybe. A lot of food doesn't come from China, though. Ultimately their lax health standards and corruption within the country ensure that food is likely to continue being a goddamn atrocity against nature and sanity. The thing is, imported products have to be tested and verified that they are, in fact, healthy. If you get some kind of problem with that you end up having your business removed from circulation and people getting their food elsewhere. When mad cow disease was making the rounds, for example, you had maybe 2-3 cows getting sick and *hundreds* if not *thousands* of cattle being killed, along with extensive testing both in the home nations and abroad, before their meat was allowed to be sold. Western countries tend to have pretty tight regulations on what's allowed in their country food-wise. You usually don't need to worry about it unless it's some new chemical or material that has some interaction that wasn't observed in normal testing.
@@DisgruntledArtist The rules in the West are written in blood. In American standard education we are taught about how factory farms used to be much worse, especially in the early days of the industrial revolution. Every time I hear about these disasters I must remind myself micro industrial revolutions are occurring in China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. So no surprise we hear about these things. And these are the incidents which are reported and punished. Think of all the ones that slip through the cracks. The least the Chinese can do is try though. And that must be extra hard to do during times of hardship such as... now! When China's economy recovers, perhaps then will we maybe see an increase in food standards.
Its called stabilizer. Its various gums and starches that protect the ice cream from things like freezer burn, crystallization, and heat shock i.e. some teenager takes his sweet time getting the stuff from the truck and into the freezer case. Not to mention it can yield some crazy amounts of overrun (air) which means more ice cream per batch Its about 1% of the total volume of ice cream.. So like a teaspoon of it per qt. But since its China, I imagine they’re adding a sht ton of it and thus you end up with something more akin to frozen taffy.
It's only chemical waste in the mind of victims of fear mongering. It's more "frozen pudding" instead of "non-melting ice cream", but they could find no market for "frozen pudding". Otherwise, it's perfectly safe to consume, as FDA has certified it.
I'm glad i bought an ice cream maker some years ago. I don't buy ice cream anymore. It's surprisingly easy to make ice cream at home without weird additives. Regional food is always the best it seems.
We had issues making ice cream ever time. It would just be like cold yogurt even though we followed the recipe. We just buy Hershey ice cream at our small convenience store. It’s really good.
Not only in china... Once i bought a "tutti frutti" ice cream out of nostalgy since i liked it as a kid It tasted like crap so i just put it all in sink a to melt.. Few hours later it was just partially melted so i wanted to speed it up with hot water and it was still melting very slowly
The ingredient is carrageenan, a seaweed extract. It's safe to consume, at least according to FDA. The only risk in eating too much of it is you'll get fat. That "ice cream" is more of "frozen pudding" instead of "non-melting ice cream", but the company apparently could find no market for "frozen pudding".
xanthan gum is being depicted as some crazy chemical in this video when in reality, it is a plant-derived ingredient that has a variety of uses. very few people actually have problems eating something like ice cream, a salad dressing, etc. with xanthan gum in it.
@@JustJustKen Those very few people have probably learned to read labels and check for the ingredients that they are very sensitive to. You might as well complain about other common ingredients like milk, shellfish or peanuts, all of which are common allergens.
These food videos have shocked me. It surprised me how many food items that i have in my (Dutch) pantry have Chinese ingredients in them. I had some pre-mixed spice bottles for potatoes, meat, and chicken that were packaged in China, containing (probably Chinese) salt and garlic. I also bought like 25 cans of Chicken Chow Mein (Bami Goreng) from Aldi with "Ingredients of diverse origins (EU and NON-EU). The Chow Mein contains Xanthan Gum and is most likely Chinese... I also had Mayonnaise and Mustard from obscure and major brands containing either (EU additive) thickening agents E-415 or E-407, which are Carrageenan and Xanthan Gum. I've gone through my entire pantry and thrown out all the foods that have these imported additive ingredients. I've thrown out about 40lbs of food stuffs that i was still planning to eat, which turned out to be sketchy. This video and others like it have greatly alerted me to ingredients to avoid, and how to REALLY CRITICALLY look at the food i buy. Thanks so much!
Honestly, your risk with additives like Carrageenan (it's seaweed!) and Xanthan Gum are low. Meat products and milk products are the most at risk, and I would never ever buy canned meat products. You don't know what has gone into them. Same with pate and meat paste, sausage, fishballs and minced meat.
@@DeeDee-pw9pm The Dutch version (I understand it was cheap) tasted fake. "Hot dogs" are as close to mystery meat as the U.S. generally gets and the Dutch version was awful and had the consistency of rubber. There was a big Thanksgiving Day celebration for the people who were Americans (I appreciated that) but the food was unrecognizable. Tastless and weird.
after the milk powder problem you would think at least one company had the common sense to make it as it should be, expense an all. they would have cleaned up. we actually had a problem with chinese people here buying up all the milk powder from the shops. you would pretty much have to pre pay for the next day if you needed any an watch your hands when picking it up as it wasnt unusual for someone to try an snatch it.
What's truly scary is in the USA, just in 2022, there have been 1,812 recalled items, many are American brands too. Everything from men's vitamins spiked with Tadalafil (boner medication), Jif peanut butter with salmonella, skittles with metal bits and 100s of products with undisclosed peanuts. Its amazing how little big companies care for our health.
@@wudchk indeed. One must do their research and then do more research before taking anything into their mouths. Thankfully the brands of supplements I have been using are effective, at least the ones whose levels can be detected in the blood.
Sounds wonderful.😀 Carrageenan Side-effects. Some studies on animals have shown that carrageenan has shown side effects that can possibly occur in humans as well. Inflammation, bloating, irritable bowel syndrome and IBD, glucose intolerance, colon cancer, food allergies etc. are some of the issues of concern.
@@zepher664 Not sure, it would take some research, but if it's cheaper than the stuff that's supposed to be in ice cream you can bet the Chinese are packing it in there.
Interestingly, those side-effects are from poligeenan, not carrageenan. TL, DR: 30 years ago a researcher referred to poligeenan as "degraded carrageenan" and because of that some scientifically illiterate people have run with the idea that carrageenan has the same properties. It doesn't. You even make them in the explicitly opposite way: carrageenan is made by processing it with alkaline (bases), poligeenan is made by processing with acids. The former is used for foods and is safe for consumption as far as anyone can tell. The latter is used for clinical diagnostics and is *not* safe for consumption, and thus is not used in food. Basically it seems like this time China Insights got mislead by sensationalists. :
Omg, it's such a shame china doesn't bother to regulate food to even a basic degree of not having harmful "ingredients." All of these bad regulations and laws will catch up with them very soon..
polluted water, terrible air quality, messed up food and to top it off being governed by a currupt dictator. my heart hurts for chinese citizens idk how they do it . i really dont know bruh wtf
maybe they would be better off if they werent constantly trying to screw each other over to make a quick buck. it isnt all the fault of the government. the government isnt the one making these terrible foods.
*corrupt and I don't think the population will handle it for much longer. I've said this many times but I'll say it again; the population either overthrows the government or faces a real possibility of extinction (from a die-off or war). Because usurping the govt/mafia/whatever-the-fuck-it-is is impossible at this point, I don't have to tell you what the logical conclusion is.
Actually it makes for an interesting but really fucked up thought experiment. A government who has crushed all forms of dissent wages a meat-grinder of a war against an outside party. Its subjects and goons are getting annihilated by the defenders and their allies; but have no means to overthrow the government and/or sue for peace. I'd love to hear from others how this whole fiasco will play out for the little people and the ruling cabal.
I've spent much of my adult life with renal colic caused by chronic kidney stones. It has driven me, several times, to attempt to end my suffering permanently. The thought of a company, knowingly subjecting innocent infants to that sort of pain for the sake of profits is beyond appalling. I used to be firmly opposed to capital punishment but stories like this one have changed my opinion. Given the opportunity, I would happily watch anyone who knowingly did such a thing experience the ultimate punishment.
In China, the ice cream is made of plastic and the buildings are made of tofu!
@okdoomer
sounds delicious! 🤤 🤤
Milk and baby formula are made from Melanin
Food & medicine capsules is made leather boots
Dimsung is made from cartoon
Oil is made from gutter oil
Fruits are soaked with toxic preservatives and sweeteners.
Anything left I forgot?
The claim of Carrageenan is interesting, because that is used all over the world, Ben and Jerry's use it. While Carrageenan would indeed slow the speed of ice cream melting, to be able to torch and burn it, seems there is more going on than the company admits too, that or an excessive amount was used. It is an extract from red seaweed.
So that's where all the missing concrete ended up
A magical land.
I work in a big food factory in California and the amount of sanitation and testing that goes into our food is insane. Every ingredient we buy requires a certificate of analysis which is basically an extensive lab test that proves the ingredients are safe. The factory itself has to be extremely clean and the lines are constantly washed. If someone were to get sick from the food, they could sue which could cost the company millions, or even billions of dollars and would ruin the company's reputation. It's crazy how these Chinese companies get away with this.
Now try suing a Chinese company lol. Good luck
Same in India with big brands.
@@w花b you cant because its actually the chinese government lol, all their companies are branches of the government
@@nishantahvan I didn't know that... I will try to remember that! Thank you!
The excessive testing is so the government steal more via tax.
Normal vet and biochemist testing is enough, but they usually go way overboard.
Now they adding the Jewish and Muslim religious stuff to, which also cost money.
And china?
Well, that's how heavy socialism is, extremely inefficient and corrupt.
A friend of mine born in China said his mom was very paranoic there about food. This video really makes me understand her.
FWIW, most of the health problems China has are localized to China. Everyone else has standards that must be met for that imported food to meet - and even China has to meet that standard, or they get turned away.
Also, interestingly, the carrageenan/non-burning-ice cream stuff are both misunderstandings of some mundane chemistry and both are safe to eat. Or, at least, not dangerous for the reasons stated.
Yes, weirdly enough, non-melting ice cream is normal - but only when exposed to extremely high temperatures. Basically it evaporates, rather than melts. It doesn't look like anything is going away but if you keep it up you'll eventually notice it shrinking. The "burning" is just chemicals from the lighter getting onto the food.
Rich people spend a ton importing everything. No one with the choice will touch the food their
this ice cream doesn't melt because it uses high technology that ordinary human beings wouldn't understand.
Just look at the price tag, it tells you everything about the quality.
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@@dongshengdi773 well thanks to those unordinary human beings who decided the price tag, poor people still have a chance to live a healthy life.
@@DisgruntledArtist All bots should sublimate
I know this isn’t a laughing matter, but the dude hitting the ice cream with a blowtorch and seeing it just straight up burn and not melt has me crying 💀
Such determination!
Smoke one for me Too man
I mean, it is kind of a laughing matter. Carrageenan is completely harmless and is the reason cheap ice creams like Great Value brand from WalMart have a bit of a weird texture and melt funny. It's a thickening agent derived from red seaweed that's been extensively studied since it first saw common use in the 1950s. This company just seems to be using a lot more than is in Great Value.
That’s why I buy bluebell or tillamook ice cream.
@@Prosecute-fauci I mean, I like Blue Bell, too, but let's not forget the couple of times they've had recalls due to listeria in recent years...
I lived in China for 5 years and I knew about the food scams before I went. I tried to always eat in reputable restaurants and even McDonalds and avoided any kind of street food or food from odd, small restaurants. I would learn while living in Shanghai that even reputable places fall victim to fake & contaminated foods, foods with fake labels (like Australian beef in a grocery store that's not actually Australian beef). When I moved away last year, I discovered that my liver function was way, way outside of normal. It's a scary thing and my feeling is that it was caused there. I've been away for a year now and I'll wait another year and be retested. I hope it gets better. I very truly feel for the Chinese people. The CCP is completely incompetent and appears to have very little interest in protecting the population from nefarious people. While there, I remember one story about an old man selling black mud flakes as pepper. He was arrested and sent to jail by the police, but his thought was that since he wasn’t killing anyone, he shouldn’t go to jail.
They have zero incentive to be honest about their labels. After all, what's going to happen to them if they get caught? Rebrand?
but mac was fine, right ?
It's not the first time central governent state has food that is basically poison- Soviet Union had the same issue.
Horrid powdered milk, questionable quality whipped cream etc etc
Most of this is usually done due yo lacks in ingredients that are edible so these coutries relapse to the same tricks as in Victorian era Britain- stuff on level of toxic sht in bread to make it look more appealing
Why do you move to China? You already know the food is inedible, the buildings are unlivable and the roads are just accidents happening.
I mean, it IS the CCP.
I mentioned this in a previous video on the subject, but it bears repeating: If this is what they will sell to their own countrymen, imagine what they'd be willing to sell to you.
I'm annoyed my country of origin Australia still imports mass Chinese food products.
And the CCP wants to rule the world.
@@zoe9632 well since australia doesnt have any space at all to produce food, that makes sense.
@@benben162 Are you brain damaged or something? Australia has more than enough capability to support itself in food production. WE'RE the ones exporting tons of food to China!
@@zoe9632 products? China practically own a big portion of Australia. They have been buying up, ports, mines, electricity, real estate and businesses of every kind. They have been doing the same thing in many countries. If they do succeed in taking over, the world will be in a real life squid games courtesy of china. God help us.
People always say Chinese products doesn't last long. I say we were wrong.
Burnt as hard as chinese ice cream
Things that shouldn't last persist and vice versa
Their ice cream lasts longer than their buildings...
Chinese shoes doesn't usually last long but their ice cream doesn't melt in high temperature. They can't do anything right
When I was a kid they said swallow gum and it stays in your stomach for 7 years..... Wonder how long this stuff last in your body
I'm from New Zealand and I remember with the melamine scandal, NZ was heavily involved because it was alleged that one of the factories adding the chemical had purchased NZ milk as one of their raw ingredients to incorporate, and were trying to pin the problem on NZ company Fonterra (biggest milk company & exporter) and if forced them to do extensive and very expensive tests to prove the issue wasn't at Fonterra's end. It wasn't (obviously) and I think that Fonterra subsequentally sued, like,,, everyone involved.... and then that caused a minor incident because china is one of NZ's largest trading partners.... yikes, is all I say.
It needs a special kind of evil mind to poison babies for profit.
I'm in Australia and I'd like to thank, New Zealand for the wonderful butter and milk power! As far as Chinese companies are concerned, they will never own up to any responsibility! I've noticed that supermarkets here do sell Chinese produced goods, such as tinned fruit. I always try to avoid buying any food product from China.
Yeah, I remember working in the supermarket at the time, and every tin had to be inspected. Also, Lee Kum Kee ready sauces are yuk.
China always blame everyone else for their problems. Typical.
@Jason Voorhees No! They are or were a very important trading partner,I suppose they still are but no, they don't own Australia.
When you showed people laddling oil from the sewer into buckets which were being used to cook food, I knew there were no limits to how far people will go. If that's not bottom, I don't know what is 🤷♀️
That image always comes to mind when I hear more about Chinese """Food"""
The Gutter Oil Industry in China
Bottom was making baby formula that gives kidney stones to BABIES!! Kidney stones feels like being stabbed, no joke!!! I broke my leg and collarbone... but the time i got kidney stones i went to the ER thinking KILL ME or FIX ME whatever get my out of this pain. Unbearable. Imagine that pain with the inability to communicate .... Pure evil.
"Chinese people"
Aye.
Couple years old expired raw meat left outside of the freezers then soaked in poison chemicals then resold as fresh...
And China dares to call the Japanese "unsophisticated"
...
In comparison anyone can see just how clean careful and meticulous the Japanese are with growing preparing packaging and shipping food ...
Japanese tourists are so polite and reserved
Chinese tourists are so obnoxiously stupid and irritating they're so bad they're called "locusts" because they ruin everything they laid their eyes on
And not to mention buildings. Especially shrines.
Makes me wonder what crap was in my ramen noodles back in the day. It's not like these issues are isolated it's been happening for decades.
Gotta hope my brand was at least from Japan and not China. Lol
@@nomore-constipation mostly made from Korea and Japan, so don't worry, except don't take too much as it's high sodium, that's the only thing you need to worry about :D
agreed, shina is a backwards evil country
If my memory is correct, Trader Joe's specifically announces it won't sell food products from China. It's no wonder every time I go there, it's always packed.
Good for them. I love going to TJ.
Hopefully stuff not "made in China" isn't just repackaged stuff "made in China". They gleefully poison the world.
Tray-Jays has good stuff, on the same level as Kirkland in my opinion. The gniocci, chunky salsa, unsalted chips, new york cheese cake, and pesto are my favorites
The only places you’ll find Chinese-made foods are Chinese supermarkets, Walmart and budget grocery stores. Most higher end grocery stores, Korean or Japanese grocery store will not touch any food products or produce from China. Personally I’d never buy a food product from China.
Fun fact: Trader Joe is actually the German supermarket chain Lidl in the EU.
There was a shortage of cooking oil in China a number of years back. A friend in the merchant navy, on a stopover in China, watched ppl open sewers & go in to collect the grease that had collected from ppl pouring old cooking oil down sinks & sewer grates. They were passing it out in the bucket load, he never ate in restaurants or off street vendors from then on.
The coin of science has yet to drop, culturally, in China. it's scary that they're on a level with the developed world. It's dangerous and wrong to financially reward it.
That's... Thrifty...
I saw the video 🤢
@@_Stin_ nice racism
@@RAIDENCHEEKS Im Chinese, keep that racist gaslighting garbage to yourself. It's a literal hellhole.
Just wanted to add- I used to work in the food industry. Xantham gum is very commonly used as a thickener outside of China too. It's used to conserve consistency. Like you know if you make a sauce and some of the heavier ingredients settle out, this gum stops that. So yeah I guarantee some sort of thickener is used in tomato sauce, bbq sauce, etc. You have definitely eaten this before. So don't be concerned if Xantham is in your food, be concerned if the food or any of it's ingredients are from China.
Yeah ... Can agree with that due to the fact Chinese industry doesn't have real ingredients so they add more of this chemical to hide this fact
And China is the number one producer of xanthan gum.
Yeah it's really common in the US especly in Diet food.
Oh and I think its Xanthan* Gum, you guys
Will that gross gum thing give me cancer?
As a kiwi, its really annoying when these dairy scandals come out, they often try to blame foreign companies for dodgey ingredients or botulism. NZ/Aus spend something like 2billion a year repairing brand reputation that has been damaged by various chinese scandals, or china simply putting 'made in nz/aus' on their products.
Gotta start a once-a-week changing QR code or bar code or something to verify authenticity. Basically make it so they would have to predict the QR code or Bar code to make a full fake.
Decades ago, the Chinese companies would put UL (the old logo) on their products even though they hadn't been inspected by Underwriters Laboratories. Or fake "Made in " labels. Chinese water is polluted, so how much of this polluted water is used to process chinese food products or even goes into the food products?
Probably to buy at a low price.
Yeah but people will still buy the chinese stuff, they won't see the harm until it's done
@Thisis Gettinboring Yep. They have local buyers called "Daigou" (a personal professional shopper). These women generally will go into supermarkets and raid the products of the day, like baby formula / gloves / masks etc. whatever is hot and in demand back in China by the well off. They have multiple people, and will take as much as they can get usually, because the more they can get and ship, the more profit they can make. If left unrestricted, they will clear the shelves in minutes / hours, as they get there first thing in the morning etc. They target certain brands, but will sometimes take the lower profit items too.
With the baby formula they will get the receipt, and stick that to the formula can before shipping, to prove it was bought in Australia etc. and that it is not fake (there is an industry in China in fake formula cans etc). They might buy it here for $20-30 then re-sell it to the Chinese buyer for $90 or $100, minus whatever shipping costs. Lately the more organized businesses upped their game, and just buy pallets of baby formula on consignment, and re-export it to rich Chinese buyers. Intercepting it before it enters the local supply chain.
In boom times, they will go to multiple shopping centres if there are buyer limits so they can get as much as possible. The baby formula shelves were often empty here with Western women walking around complaining they couldn't get the baby formula they needed, sometimes the supermarket staff would hold back some cans. It wasn't that there was a shortage of formula as such, the supermarkets just don't have loads of pallets sitting around, they need to ship / truck them in from the suppliers like Bellamy's Organic. etc.
They also tried buying out toilet paper and re-selling that for a profit locally, during the pandemic, but don't think that went as well. One woman was busted with a house crammed full of it... hah.
I don't believe that the mooncakes were filled with cotton because cotton is actually quite expensive. Perhaps it was a cheaper synthetic fabric.
Cardboard seems to be a very common bun filler I've heard about.
YEP heard about Chinese using cardboard in the food they sell too.
You know what’s funny ? I tired it at home. I cooked ground beef with brown cardboard and amazingly it went down well. 😂
It's just gross to think about. Imagine if they put glass inside food.
@@t.castro4493 they have. 😂
@@lombardo141 Oh no 😬
I'm sharing this info with everyone I know, then
I'm going to have to sort out my food cupboards and pay more attention to labelling in supermarkets.
Thanks for letting us know about these problems with Chinese food. Must be awful for the Chinese people to know they have little choice but to buy foods that are likely contaminated.
So, when some politician says some dumb sh*t like "I want to end the administrative state!"
*REMEMBER THIS!!*
I would recommand to visit Taiwan instead of Communist China. Taiwan is such a beautiful country. I really recommend it to you. The food is of such good quality and the culture is amazing. People are so nice and friendly to foreigners and they love to help you if you have any problem.
I‘m from Germany and this is what I have experienced there.
Joke on you. Walmart had it for years. And hospitals often use it to provide "ice cream" for patients with muscular disorder that will choke if they try to swallow something too thin.
@@DLlama Why? Carrageenan is a perfectly safe food ingredient according to FDA. There is nothing in "unmelting ice cream" except that people are not used to it. Of course, just as any other food stuff, don't eat too much it, you'll get fat with any bad things that come with it.
If you want to find wrong in it, at best you can accuse them of "it's just a frozen pudding, marketed as ice cream".
As a chinese guy who fled China, Guys never eat anything imported from China, and don't go there it's pretty fucked up.
even if its just for a year for study or work?
@@mephtec I wouldn't go there for one hour.
ok so if my country is turning into ccp i can 100% count on you to fight them and have my back, i feel much safer.
@@mephtec except if you're Lebron
@@mephtec I mean go there and verify how fucked up it is, then come back and tell everyone, the CPP is an idea it's and idealogy, no one believes it until they see it.
If anything China is literally what the game Cyberpunk warns us of becoming. From food, to atmosphere, to buildings being shoddy and easily collapsable, to literally everything.
Literally made me consider why I'm so interested in China, good job lmao
Yeah. They even killed all the birds in the cities.
Maybe not so much the sex stuff.
It does not explain why their mobile phones & 5G work so well, their bridges, highest buildings, trains, drones & space crafts are so incredibly advanced. Yeah, they do have quite a lot of faults still, but the world improve with each passing moment.
D Y S T O P I A
There's a science behind melting ice cream and ice and snow with a lighter, I don't remember how exactly but not all ice and ice cream just melts under high heat. But the fact they left it out in 30c+ heat for an hour and it still didn't melt is terrifying
Yea, even ice doesn't just instantly melt from direct fire. The intense, direct heat melts a layer of ice but then the water that was created absorbs the heat of the fire, preventing other ice from melting until the water evaporates (evaporative cooling is extremely efficient).
The real smoking gun is leaving it at 30C for over an hour. There has to be an immense amount of chemical fuckery for them to have "achieved" that.
The heat from a flame is too hot, it burns instead of melts. The same went viral with snow like you said and also people were doing it with cheeses too
Regardless the ice cream should be properly tested by a reputable source
It means they are confectionary ice creams. Simple, like chilling marsh mellows in the ice box.
@@EdwinaTS No where else in the world we call ice cream that doesn't melt as ice cream. Sorry bud, stop drinking the CCP gutter oil.
Some people call it, The Stuff
Super hot weather in China:
Shoes: melt
Sign post: melt
Ice cream: *Ice* cream
Shoes: jelly
Hotel: Trivago
They should build their skyscrapers using their ice cream. Should last 4x as long now.
“Even if it’s not fine, pay more attention to it in your next life.”
That’s the golden quote there 😂
I’m sincerely concerned how people treat lives when they say something like this
Don’t cut corners.
I wouldn't be surprised if that commenter is from that company. Lol. Then just farm some likes and you're good to go. 😆
In china? Life is worth pennies.
America is heading in that direction, fast food quality has fallen so much compare to when I was a kid.
They might as well say, "Oh you died from that? Well, in your next life, make sure you're careful to not eat things that could harm you alright?"
i believe its sarcasm,even the chinese grasp it while some westerners still dont.
My goodness, I worked in Italy in a farm with packaging machines. Everytime we had to enter the chambers I couldn't believe I was going to process food and not doing a brain surgery..
Same in the USA. Food processing plants must be very clean because they get visited by government agencies that test the food.
Used to work at a grocery store and every day we would have Chinese businessmen and women coming in and clearing us out of our baby formula. It got to the point that we had to limit it pretty customer because our regular customers couldn't get any. Nobody at work knew what they wanted so much baby formula but now it makes sense
The Chinese people are extremely wary of baby formula after a company there was putting a cheap bulk chemical in their formula that appeared to be a protein when analyzed, but in reality it was poisoning the kids. The owners of the company were severely punished but the damage was done, nobody in China trusts their domesticly produced baby formula anymore, which is probably why the supply issues have been happening worldwide.
Heroine
They were making money..selling it at high prices
They were selling it at higher prices obviously.
I don't know what country you are from, but in Australia stripping our shelves of baby formula was common. It was quite often organised too. People would go out and take everything they could, and bring it back to a central place. They would be paid for this work. Then the formula was put into comtainers and sent to c hina to sell at a great profit. Closing our borders due to the pandemic stopped this. Not forgotten though.
I live in Australia and I remember we had a massive issue with people buying baby formula and exporting it to china. it got so bad I would have to call around multiple places each week just to find a single tub available then I would get them to put it behind the counter for me why I drove sometimes an hour away to pick it up.
Yes. I have seen whole Chinese families come into stores seperately to not look as buying formula above quota allowed
They sell on internet at highly marked up prices.
Real bad behaviour that has been allowed to continue for many years.
Why do you keep letting them do whatever they want?
Damnn, didn't realise it happened overseas too :0 I used to live in Hong Kong, and just a few train stops away from China. I remember people just hating on Chinese people and called them locusts because of their behaviour. Literally cleared out all the baby formula and other imported products to a point that the local mothers aren't able to feed their children.
yeah those products would be sold in china at a premium high price
Can't really blame them for not wanting to feed their babies leather boots
Im so glad that here in Switzerland where i live, we have VERY strict food regulations so I never had any health issues in the over 12 years that i have lived here, we don't take any risks here and I'm talking from personal experience from working in a takeaway, here you have to state everything inside the food/drinks and country of origin as well, lying about these things can lead to heavy fines and even loss of your business
FWIW, most of the health problems China has are localized to China. Everyone else has standards that must be met for that imported food to meet - and even China has to meet that standard, or they get turned away.
Also, interestingly, the carrageenan/non-burning-ice cream stuff are both misunderstandings of some mundane chemistry and both are safe to eat. Or, at least, not dangerous for the reasons stated.
Yes, weirdly enough, non-melting ice cream is normal - but only when exposed to extremely high temperatures. Basically it evaporates, rather than melts. It doesn't look like anything is going away but if you keep it up you'll eventually notice it shrinking. The "burning" is just chemicals from the lighter getting onto the food.
Glory to the Swiss egg roll!
Bro I’m in Switzerland right now and I put Cotton in cotton candy
🤔 chinese ice cream ain’t for wimps!
Same in the US and I assume any county we trade food with.
When I was living in Hong Kong, my family and everyone else was SO SO afraid of MainLand China made products. We were Constantly checking our food.
My family is in the cattle export business here in Australia, a little while ago we found out that china was selling lots of boxes of "Australian beef" to other countries which turned out to actually be buffalo meat.
To be fair, Australian beef should come from murder cows, given your wildlife.
Crazy! Bison tastes so different. Or maybe I am confusing North American Bison vs water Buffalo.
American Bison is delicious! And if you are brave try some Rocky Mountain Oysters!!
@TrollToll u wouldnt think that a little fried crown jewel would be that good, but if u get the idea of nuts out of ur mind theyre actually pretty fucking good man 😂
@TrollToll bro wtf
they also sell argentine royal honey to other countries as a fraction of the real one wonder what does it have lol it probably does that with all the countries like ur beef
and they banned taiwanese food imports?
it's important to read the labels on food packaging. here in australia, a lot of big brand lollies/candies like chuppachups, mentos, etc are actually made in china.. even mcdonald's sweet and sour sauce 😵
Taiwanese food is good.
Omg, yeah, secluded Taiwan can supply China , use brains pls
McDonald's sweet n sour??! No!!😩
Sweet n sour sauce originated in China. But thats not who makes McDonald's sauce
@@CajunPride777 you can google it. there's a picture of the australian mcdonald's sweet n sour sauce with "made in china" written on the label and that's what i noticed too on my sauce before. although i just checked the sauce that i just got recently, made in china is no longer on the label. i don't know if they have moved the production elsewhere or they're just not putting it on the label anymore 🤷♀️
my dad works in the construction industry, and he told me that once when he went to china to source for materials, a supplier asked him what he was going to use a certain material for, because apparently some food companies had used them in their products 😭
What's the material called?
@brokenrobot4073 well sh*t lol
Is your dad trying to get some Epoxy or Window sealants? lmao
look up tofu drag buildings
Bruh
The hell do you mean different countries get 'different health standards' for customs? As a consumer I should at least know which countries are legally allowed to sell me garbage so I can know to not eat them.
I lived with my relatives for a few months in the past in China. They drink bottled water and all of their food is either imported or bought in high end supermarkets. They are really paranoid about their cat’s food as well.
It's funny that even Chinese people don't trust other Chinese people.
Thats why I would recommand you to visit Taiwan instead of Communist China. Taiwan is such a beautiful country. I really recommend it to you. The food is of such good quality and the culture is amazing. People are so nice and friendly to foreigners and they love to help you if you have any problem.
I‘m from Germany and this is what I have experienced there.
I went to China in the 1990's before it changed to the "modern" way of life. It was in Beijing, we ate at this restaurant that was supposed to have good reviews and the food was indeed good. Before we left I popped into the kitchen to have a look at the "facilities". My God I was shocked, dirty, smelly, horrible place in every possible way you could think off, badly lit, painted in many different colours that was flaking down the also black and moldy walls, it looked like it could have been a cellar used for decades of torture in a forgotten back street of Moscow. I could not believe that the food had come out of this place. And this was a place with "good reputation"?? I understood that the Chinese mentality of food hygiene was totally different from what I was used to, I still believe the Chinese are far behind on these matters, I have never gone back to China, and will never do either, the way the country is run and managed is a disgrace to humanity.
ah yes, being shocked that a 3rd world country just out of war was poor and dirty and criticizing them for it.
this is exactly the type of ignorance people in other countries dislike about americans
@@OxStong Just out of what war? Sino-Vietnamese war was 10 years before 1990s and near Guangzhou, not Beijing
@Ox Stong Vietnam has much better business regulations and cleaner standards than China and they were at war for most of the 20th century and lost millions of people. China has no excuse other than having no standards and a culture of corruption where no one is held accountable.
I don't eat Chinese food period. Not even here in the US, all of their restaurants stink to me. Idc where they are.
@@OxStong as they said, they were shocked at the kitchen, idc where your from if the kitchen is dirty beware of the food. And yes they should be critical about where they eat, it makes sense just so ya know not to eat there again.
China out here taking "reduce reuse recycle" to a whole new level
Going from pants and leather into bread and whatever.
Ah China, the land where people use bean and tofu for housing construction, plastic and gutter oil for food.
"pay more attention to it in your next life"
Damn they poison you and then gaslight you into thinking it's your fault, all while charging you gourmet prices
No, that was from a snarky customer.
All I can say is, what kind of hell do these people live in anyway? This is insanity.
Search China toxic and take food.
The Hell, of living in an Atheist Society. Morals out the 🚪
I wanted to do a gap year in China, but honestly, the more I find out about China, the less I want to go. I'm going to look for other countries
DONT go go China! They will just lock you down. They are having issues over there. They have a zero covid policy.
For the love of all that is good don't ever go to China for any reason.
Good idea.
Only a fool would go anywhere near China
Same here
China where their ice cream has more structural integrity than their buildings
this shit is so insane and dystopian its incredible. 300 000+ kids affected....
Nestlé: Finally, a worthy oponent!
I regularly shop in Asian grocery stores and I've noticed the cancer warning on all white pepper coming from over there. Same with a lot of spices and flavorings in general. It's on the label
Don't trust chlnese food. Vietnamese food better. Lol.
@@philipsmi-lenguyen8155 Vietnamese food isn't much better. Lots of Vietnamese fruits are washed in chemicals just like in China and there are very little regulations for food safety
The label was like “hey! this contain substance that cause reproductive harm and cancer so eat at your own risk. We don’t ban them cause money. If you get sick, also money to us. Don’t try to sue cause we clearly warn you.”
Makes me wonder what crap was in my ramen noodles back in the day. It's not like these issues are isolated it's been happening for decades.
Gotta hope it was at least from Japan and not China. Lol
@@MidKnight_Dragon I believe he was referring to food exported to countries such as here in the U.S. where they go through higher quality control. I have much more trust than those from China. There are also baby formula made from Vietnamese company (Nutifood) imported to the U.S. after passing very stringent standards and requirements. From China, that is not even possible. Domestic food safety in Vietnam is not so high, but not near the fake and harmful levels of China.
California grows garlic, but if one goes to local supermarket, California garlic is hard to find. Instead, one finds garlic imported from China. It has no smell and kind of glows eerily white. Almost fluorescent.
It is treated with radioactive rays. so be careful or you will have a bright radiation future.
This is why I grow my own garlic
It's poured in bleach
It's gross. California has a city Gillroy where it used to be a huge garlic supplier all over the country. I hate seeing Chinese food sold when we clearly grown enough of our own and don't need any of it. Something to do with trade & money. They buy from us, we buy from them.The Chinese garlic is old,musty,dried out. It's completely inferior. Also it's dyed. Tell your store you want garlic from the US.
Costco carries CA garlic. It also carries organic ginger. NEVER buy ginger from China.
This is how China treats their own citizens. Think again about trusting food or medicines exported from China. Read the labels, before buying anything.
that's why you read the label and you leave it alone if it said made in west-taiwan,
Speaking for myself, I'm never eating any food imported from China ever again. I wonder if there is some kind of resource that helps identify what companies and products use food stuffs from China?
Anything natural ingredients is good since china nothing natural.
you should be fine 99% of the time
even the imported items from china that you see on some store shelves are fine because imported items still go through a considerable amount of quality control
it might be hard to believe but china wouldnt dare export stuff like this because it would be bad for their economy if countries would stop buying stuff from them
you should be more worried about local foodborne outbreaks instead
@@TheGraveyarder you either didn't watch the whole video or you're a CCP propagandist.
Problems are documented but the food is sold anyways.
@@Irving_teran Well, major Chinese brands you see in Chinese American stores, go though the FDA, if they exported a batch toxic famous international brand soy sauce, if that got reported, it would be an instant outrage across the world.
The documentary refers to the majority MAINLAND China.
I went to a marketplace the other day and they had signs telling me that the garlic I was looking to buy came directly from China. I didn't want to be "that person", but something in me told me to avoid buying it and apparently, a lot of other people had the same notion, for there was a lot of that garlic still sitting on the shelf.
6:12 the pain that father goes through for his child is insurmountable, I pray they get through this..
pray
They really dont care or have any respect for life. Pure financial greed over basic life principles. Absolutely disgraceful
I stopped buying shiitake mushrooms from China. While the mushrooms naturally contain the chemical in formaldehyde, opening the bag was like being in a dissection lab. Unnatural. I later did some searching and found that some Chinese companies would add formaldehyde to the mushrooms to give the illusion of added potency. Gross. Having switched to one’s grown and processed in the US, Korea, or Japan, I’ve not had an issue like this happen again.
I feel so sad and distressed seeing this. I really wanted to visit China and see their historical sites, experience their culture. I even started learning chinese for that. But watching this channel's videos on China has been a dream shattering experience. What's wrong with this country? It feels like a dystopian society , everything is fake and hides some terrible secret. So different from what i imagined China to be like.
sadge
Communism happened.
Remember, this channel is very clearly biased. You could do the same for every country in the world, just point at everything negative.
I suggest you visit Taiwan instead.
@@tonnentonie2767 Perhaps, but messing with food and seeing the list of controversial food incidents in China is just too much.
One detail to note that was left somewhat unclear in the video: Carrageenan has a degree of scientific evidence pointing towards its health hazards. Xanthan gum however does not have any such evidence, the only health hazard currently known involving it would be something like these Chinese imported foods where either something toxic was mixed in or the food processing was otherwise unsafe (e.g. salmonella contamination). Xanthan gum produced through normal, healthy means is approved for human consumption in both the EU and US. There's no need to be alarmed just because something has xantham gum in it, but it should raise questions about the origins of the ingredients seeing how China is the largest exporter of it. In the end it's just one ingredient used in food processing, there are many others that work very similarly that are used widely in the business as well.
Unless you’re allergic to wheat, soy or corn, because those things are used to feed the bacteria that produces the xanthan.
Similarly, *ALL* of the studies that say vaping is dangerous were testing Chinese-made counterfeit CBD and cannabis products, not nicotine pods or juices made in USA. "Popcorn lung" is because of these practices, not Juul.
I'm sorry the media lied to your face and made parents freak out about vapes for no reason other than farming clicks.
So, when some politician says some dumb sh*t like "I want to end the administrative state!"
*REMEMBER THIS!!*
I don't understand why food can't just be food why it has to be all these nasty chemicals and freaking weather shoes and all the stuff can't food just be food and nothing else?
At this point with Chinese food the question isn’t “if something toxic was mixed in” - it’s “how much”.
@@matthewpitre8159bc money and poverty exists 🤡
It’s like nobody told the Chinese that there’s a market in Japan for fake “display food” for restaurants. Keep up the videos!
I've had a similar experience with Blue Bunny ice cream in the US. I didn't use a blowtorch, but it didn't melt at room temperature.
At a restaurant I work at we ran out of shredded cheddar. We sent a guy to the store to pick up a few bags, he got the cheapest available. It wouldn't melt. Even when we dropped it directly on the flattop grill it took several minutes.
Check labels. Look at how much "Ice cream" is actually labeled "frozen dessert". Or peanut butter is "peanut spread". These aren't foods, they are non toxic food (supposedly) like substances.
I always make my own peanut butter these days, it's way better and you know exactly what it is. Literally all you need to do is throw roast peanuts and salt in a food processor and let it run for a few minutes.
@@LordZedz A friend makes Nut Butter. It's mostly peanuts, with cashews and roasted almonds added. It has a deeper earthy/nutty taste.
Was it Sharp Cheddar? Because that stuff doesn't melt as well as milder softer cheddars, & tends to resolidify quickly in grilled cheese sandwiches.
@@LikaLaruku This didn't melt on a 350° grill for several minutes. I've seen cheese, especially cheap stuff that has a lot of oil and other processing ingredients sweat before melting. This didn't do that. It was more like plastic. I think it was intended to be served cold, like on top of a salad. God knows what it does inside a human body.
Sharp cheddar doesn't melt the same as other cheddars.
Now I need to check every ice cream.
I'll never understand why these companies decide to deliberately poison their customers..... ☹️
It's because no one holds them accountable. If it is profitable, it will continue. Batch up some cheap ingredients with compounds that make them look and taste more nutritious, then sell for a premium price.
@@thestrangegreenman Sadly it is probably more sinister than that. The people in real power have other plans beyond worrying on profit and may encourage some evil practices. Happens in the West also which is why sugar is added to pretty much everything.
Because money is their god. It was a result from cultural revolution by mao ze dong. Wiped out thousand of years of good chinese value n traditions..
For profits. In earlier times in US, the smoking companies would mislead the community about how safe smoking was. Petroleum companies also sold leaded petrol, and hid the dangers from the people.
@@BonVoyage861 I doubt it's more sinister than profit. The people running the factories that recycle old shoes into gelatin have made a ton of money and live like royalty. They don't want to give that lifestyle up. Same goes for selling substandard milk with melamine added to fool nutritional analyses into thinking it actually has protein in it. All you need is a total lack of a soul and away you go.
I work at a grocery store, we display the source of the produce next to the prices. Chinese products are always suspiciously appealing. There are bad loads of apples, bruised pears, squishy avocados, but from China the carrots garlic and fruit are always pristine. It makes me highly suspicious of how they are grown.
in europe( even in the us ithink )60% of canned bean corn even fish even organic ()etc.food is made in China and the importer has not to declare its origin if the canned food was pasteurised or was mixed with other indriegens (ketchup pastasauce etc)
When i see china on a food label, i put it back.
@@ZerudaDensetsu but there is no china label if you buy sauces etc.
@@hfhxshjc4045 If it's processed in an American factory, then it is probably safe to eat. USA companies must submit all their food products for lab testing
0:35 "Chicecream" I love that. You could make a word play with the German word "Scheisse" or "scheiss", meaning shit or shitty. Well played, China.
Here in Australia.... for YEARS Australian Chinese buy out our baby milk stock, leaving shelves empty.
They ship to China with a MASSIVE markup.
Many of our dairies are Chinese owned with products shipped straight to China.
These dairies are not run the way they should 😤
Immigrant's should be held to a high standard of loyalty to their host country and required to integrate. Multicultural ideology has led to the west throwing wide it's gates to enemy infiltrators whose loyalty isvto their homeland and only purpose is to exploit our superior nations. We have problems like this with foreigners in America as well.
@TrollToll they have the same chance/opportunity as Chinese Aussies do to clear supermarket shelves & onsell to China.
Even with that opportunity ... it's never non Asian Aussies that do!
There's plenty of video evidence of it happening.
The Chinese people import quality Aussie products, but the Aussie people import shitty Chinese products. How unfortunate.
@@zoe9632 Seems like every Chinese person around the world can't be trusted.
@TrollToll they would and do, but don't expect a white Australian to talk straight or admit it
This is extremely disturbing. It's not exactly news to me but a very important reminder to carefully consider what I consume. (I think it was on here I saw how cooking oil was recycled from sewers. Mental)
Where I am in Africa, as with many African countries, we eat fresh day in day out and are conscious of where everything comes from. If it doesn't grow around me..not interested.
It's not suprising for me, since I'm from what used to be Communist Block (Poland to be exact) so I know how goverments who try to hide shortages in supplies act
right you are!
we made corn 🌽 on the cob last week .. my husband completely it was chewy & mushy. my oldest reminded him that LOCAL corn was NOT in season.
in my home country, family still looks forward to celebrating certain fruits & vegetables being in season.
in USA cities.. we have forgotten that.
@@masterzoroark6664 I suspect that things are much different now in Poland; especially with regulatory standards adopted from the E.U. (which has its own problems but less with matching supply and demand and more with arbitrary standards).
The China problem is a factor of its size/scale coupled with its inability and unwillingness to effectively regulate. If supply is unable to meet demand at any point the effects are always exaggerated. This problem will almost certainly remain unchecked (domestically) for a long time-decades even.
Imagine it this way, the very poor quality or even harmful produce/food that makes its way into the international market is made in China - why would what is available domestically be any different? It's a real cyclical problem.
@@emmapeel8163 Exactly! Funny you should mention corn cause I particularly like corn season. Once it's time, it's everywhere, it's cheap and it's tasty.
It may seem convenient to opt for packaged food from a supermarket but, unless you live in the desert, it's equally easy to go to a farmers' market and get what's in season.
Nothing beats fresh local organic corn.
I used to work for a worldwide soft serve ice cream company in Australia and they bought all of their milk powder from China. I wouldn't eat soft serve ice cream if I were you.
What company
Made in China
I remember when one Chinese businessman tried to hustle tons of Philippine old 5 peso coins but was caught. An incident occur too when they tried to bring in their plastic rice. And that happens because Philippine government is not that competitive. Shame. What. Shame
This video reminds me of a novel written by Upton Sinclair called The Jungle that was written in 1906. This novel described horrible and unsanitary conditions in meat packing plants in the United States at that time in history.
We had to read excerpts from that for one of my schools history classes, shit was insane
And the uproar over the revelations in Sinclair's book led to the creation of the FDA which has been the federal watchdog for guaranteed safety in food and medicine production ever since.
Yeah, I remember hearing some excerpts in a US History class I took. It really was quite unnerving to hear.
You missed the point of "The Jungle" to be honest lol.
@@codycigar6542 Oh everyone did.
The writer was on the record of saying 'I tried to hit them in their hearts and instead hit them in their stomachs.' The dude HATED the fact that everyone missed the point of the novel in favor of their food.
I was reading the 19th Century writer Ji Yun, and he write a whole section scams, how vendors would alter, among other products, food. A roastes duck, for example, would ve hollowed and filled with scum and paper, then sold at full price. Some things never change, they get worse.
Sorry, I meant: a roasted duck which would have been hollowed and filled with dirt and paper.
@@georgewilson7432 just edit the comment.
What book?
The book in English is titled:
The Shadow Book of Ji Yun: The Chinese Classic of Weird True Tales, Horror Stories, and Occult Knowledge.
Good luck getting repeat customers when you do that.
They probably made it not melt so they can easily store it without cooler expenses. The movie the founder mentioned how most businesses went out of business just because of the freezer expenses
Tbh you shouldn't make ice cream product line to begin with if you're not prepared with the freezer cost
@@letsreadtextbook1687 Ackhcually, some hospitals in USA also made their own version of unmelting ice cream using the same ingredients. It's for patients that have difficulties swallowing liquids. It's more of "frozen pudding" instead of "unmelting ice cream". That Chinese company should market it as such, but then again, there are no market for "frozen pudding".
None of this surprises me.
In a country where "gutter oil" is a thing, no food is to be trusted.
This makes me worry about anything that has multiple ingredients in it, where 1 ingredient could be a bad one from China.
I'm surprised TH-cam hasn't removed this video for being too truthful.
"It isn't scientific to judge the quality of ice cream by baking it or heating it under the sun."
.......
*DID I HEAR THAT CORRECTLY?!?!?!!!*
China doesn't have the brightest people
Get me some, and this summer when it's 120 degrees here in Arizona and I'll set it outside and see if it melts.
I remember a few years ago a similar thing happened. It was a Walmart brand ice cream sandwich that was accidentally left outside in the summer. It didn't melt either
It was directly imported from China.
It's a miracle...no, It's science..!!
It’s a leather boot 👢
Walmart is the retail chain with the most cheap products from China.
Same, while not at a Walmart, I did visit and shop at an American store that had my favorite flavor of ice cream. I had no problem at first, but then when I went to wash the spoon I scooped the ice cream with....the "cream" wouldn't melt, despite the fact that I was washing the spoon with hot water. I also had some left in my bowl and to stop my cat from eating it, I went to place the bowl in the sink and wash it. Hot water and all....the damn creature didn't melt!!! It took me forcing the beast down the drain with my hands in order for me to clean my bowl.
I have not had eaten today but for some reason I'm no longer hungry. Yikes!
Brings a whole renewed obsession with looking at wherever it's made from.
When I was in China, I only ate ice cream that melted.
Hopefully that ice cream was imported and not made in China (melamine). Go get checked regularly for long term effects.
Kind of hurts to hear these things when you're someone who often partakes in the food of the cultures and your videos let me have really made me reconsider anything coming out of China from the clothes from having too much lead to the food might not even be safe like it almost feels like propaganda but it's the truth and it's due to corruption or relaxed standards but it also seems like that's just a product of them trying to feed a overpopulated nation
The heavy metal and carcinogen polluted water is used to irrigate the crops and raise the animals. Chances are it is also used in food processing because cleaning up that water costs money.
Is it propaganda if it’s true? Even Chinese people would tell you to avoid made in China, as they avoid it too if they can. The culture of corruption and “nothing matters but the bottom line” is rotting the country inside out.
Nation is not overpopulated
They just don't regulate food like Americans do so it's easy to see why China is a sinking ship
Nope. Not even.
Do the ingredients they use in Chinese food cooked in the USA are "Made in China"?
Are the ingredients "Made in China" being tested after being shipped to the USA?
When going to school and living in China some years ago, I recall purchasing a "protein powder" from a brand with Yao Ming on the cover.
When I stirred it into water, it became first a jelly like substance, turned from white to brown, and smelled very strange.
I decided to experiment and leave out a glass of it for a few hours, when I returned, it separated and on top was a solid puck-like object that would not melt by flame or break by hammer and stomping. One of the students said not to drink it, that it would cause stomach pains. Fortunately I consumed none of it.
definitely Melamine
When I was in China, I also tried the local "protein powder" that was much cheaper than american whey protein. Thank God I didn't develop any cancer from drinking these stuff
@@damiensutanto244 how courageous 😂
@@damiensutanto244 get routinely checked.
LACK OF REGULATIONS... That's why they sell the ingredients to the USA and other countries.
"needs an official certificate.."
right. like the Chinese companies don't simply fake a certificate? the EU & USA simply take their word about analyzing the products?!
Not only that but they circumnavigate the rules by exporting this rubbish to other 'lax' countries where it's re-labelled as coming from THAT country,the CCP pay lip service to EVERYTHING and they don't care about anything or anyone apart from themselves and power.
How can the EU and USA analyze the Chinese products considering CCP is there?
Certificate alone won't prevent products from being retested.
Chinese companies are state owned, it just happens the ccp doesn't care
Dude, the Willy wonka ice cream is real!!! A ice cream that will never melt!
Germany was fined for WWII. China should be fined for COVID
This is why I try to eat whole/ unprocessed foods. I know the US has inspections and safety standards, but they still allow pretty nasty stuff in our food. And as someone who has worked in many factories, they can be pretty disgusting and out dated.
Unprocessed food also got problem in china. They made it looks as real as possible. Or dips it in chemical.
thank theodore roosevelt your food don't end up like china's food
I would recommand you to visit Taiwan instead of Communist China. Taiwan is such a beautiful country. I really recommend it to you. The food is of such good quality and the culture is amazing. People are so nice and friendly to foreigners and they love to help you if you have any problem.
I‘m from Germany and this is what I have experienced there.
You only think it is nasty because some people make a living from fear mongering the mass, and you're just one who fall for it.
How can we in the west tell if our food contains chemicals from China or not? Should we all from now on use food heavy metal testing kits? for every meal? What about restaurants, cafes and bakeries? Do I dare to buy regular bread, or eat Thai food?
food is regulated in the west. and other places sell stuff to make chinese food and etc.
Even though we have regulations in the west, it is impossible to trace back all ingredients back to their origin simply because it is not required to do so in the labeling (at least in the US). Your best bet is to not buy any food that is chinese themed and is sold in chinese grocery stores and some other asian stores. Also, don't buy apple juice from walmart. They use apples from china. Google foods imported from china is also helpful.
Look into juice sold in the west and the additives they put into it. You won’t buy it anymore.
As a general rule, food products from large manufacturers in the US like, Kraft, Nestlé, McCormick, Pepsi...etc all use ingredients from all over the world including China. So for US brands, you are better off going smaller and more local or just ask the brand's customer service what percentage of their ingredients come from China. And another general rule, Japanese food brands tend to stay away from Chinese ingredient companies, of course not always but a good amount do.
Also. FDA has strict guidance for heavy metals and pesticide/herbicide residues for imported food products. I think that's great to have, but FDA does not sample and test every shipment of food products that come into the US, unless they are repeat offenders which will often raise a red flag at the port of entry.
"At least it doesn't harm the poor" says a lot about that person
Make their government pay for this. This is awful.
When the CEO of a company is never held to account these things will keep happening.
Money above all else.
Good old chinese food scam.
diarrhoe guarantee.
-10’000 social credit 🇨🇳 😡
China #1 sewer oil producer in the world.
The one and only time I've ever had a metal piece (looked like a metal workshop steel Chip off a lathe) was when I got Chinese food... get this, in California.
I always wondered how they could get their prices so low. I hope they aren't sourcing from places like this. I understand food mishaps happen all the time, everywhere
FWIW, most of the health problems China has are localized to China. Everyone else has standards that must be met for that imported food to meet - and even China has to meet that standard, or they get turned away.
Also, interestingly, the carrageenan/non-burning-ice cream stuff are both misunderstandings of some mundane chemistry and both are safe to eat. Or, at least, not dangerous for the reasons stated.
Yes, weirdly enough, non-melting ice cream is normal - but only when exposed to extremely high temperatures. Basically it evaporates, rather than melts. It doesn't look like anything is going away but if you keep it up you'll eventually notice it shrinking. The "burning" is just chemicals from the lighter getting onto the food.
@@DisgruntledArtist Although it must be extra hard for the local Chinese, there is no way we don't get import/exported products from there regardless. If Chinese food standards improve, by proxy through our globalized world, we will get better products too. I ultimately don't know where that eatery mentioned in the op got their ingredients from... and I thought at first they must have bought a new food processor lol
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I could totally believe that. California is so wrapped up in China you're surprised they're not Commiefornia yet.
@@kalui96 Maybe. A lot of food doesn't come from China, though. Ultimately their lax health standards and corruption within the country ensure that food is likely to continue being a goddamn atrocity against nature and sanity.
The thing is, imported products have to be tested and verified that they are, in fact, healthy. If you get some kind of problem with that you end up having your business removed from circulation and people getting their food elsewhere. When mad cow disease was making the rounds, for example, you had maybe 2-3 cows getting sick and *hundreds* if not *thousands* of cattle being killed, along with extensive testing both in the home nations and abroad, before their meat was allowed to be sold.
Western countries tend to have pretty tight regulations on what's allowed in their country food-wise. You usually don't need to worry about it unless it's some new chemical or material that has some interaction that wasn't observed in normal testing.
@@DisgruntledArtist The rules in the West are written in blood. In American standard education we are taught about how factory farms used to be much worse, especially in the early days of the industrial revolution. Every time I hear about these disasters I must remind myself micro industrial revolutions are occurring in China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc. So no surprise we hear about these things.
And these are the incidents which are reported and punished. Think of all the ones that slip through the cracks.
The least the Chinese can do is try though. And that must be extra hard to do during times of hardship such as... now! When China's economy recovers, perhaps then will we maybe see an increase in food standards.
I seen a documentary thats been sonce been taken down where people were turning cardboard into rice.
i saw that too and bits of plastic
Its called stabilizer. Its various gums and starches that protect the ice cream from things like freezer burn, crystallization, and heat shock i.e. some teenager takes his sweet time getting the stuff from the truck and into the freezer case. Not to mention it can yield some crazy amounts of overrun (air) which means more ice cream per batch Its about 1% of the total volume of ice cream.. So like a teaspoon of it per qt. But since its China, I imagine they’re adding a sht ton of it and thus you end up with something more akin to frozen taffy.
Or frozen pudding. 😅
Several brands of ice cream in the USA are non-melting chemical waste as well.
Dont eat Breyer's that stuff dont melt
It's only chemical waste in the mind of victims of fear mongering.
It's more "frozen pudding" instead of "non-melting ice cream", but they could find no market for "frozen pudding". Otherwise, it's perfectly safe to consume, as FDA has certified it.
I'm glad i bought an ice cream maker some years ago. I don't buy ice cream anymore. It's surprisingly easy to make ice cream at home without weird additives.
Regional food is always the best it seems.
We had issues making ice cream ever time. It would just be like cold yogurt even though we followed the recipe. We just buy Hershey ice cream at our small convenience store. It’s really good.
@@caracalcontinuum3118 It definitely takes some try and error to work out the perfect recipe but it is worth it in my opinion.
@@caracalcontinuum3118 Try using salt to freeze it.
The news never talks about this. Quite a shame all this is going on and barely anyone knows about it. Thanks for sharing.
Not only in china...
Once i bought a "tutti frutti" ice cream out of nostalgy since i liked it as a kid
It tasted like crap so i just put it all in sink a to melt.. Few hours later it was just partially melted so i wanted to speed it up with hot water and it was still melting very slowly
The ingredient is carrageenan, a seaweed extract. It's safe to consume, at least according to FDA. The only risk in eating too much of it is you'll get fat.
That "ice cream" is more of "frozen pudding" instead of "non-melting ice cream", but the company apparently could find no market for "frozen pudding".
xanthan gum is being depicted as some crazy chemical in this video when in reality, it is a plant-derived ingredient that has a variety of uses. very few people actually have problems eating something like ice cream, a salad dressing, etc. with xanthan gum in it.
So what about those "very few people" that have trouble eating it then?
Let them have troubles, I guess?
if it was bad for you we would all be fucked its in like half of gummy candies.
@@JustJustKen Those very few people have probably learned to read labels and check for the ingredients that they are very sensitive to. You might as well complain about other common ingredients like milk, shellfish or peanuts, all of which are common allergens.
@RexXflash
disagreeing with some video with zero research = CCP warrior
Oh Xanthan gum! I forgot about that star wars villain.
Willy Wonka has the Everlasting Gobstopper and China has the never melting ice cream
These food videos have shocked me.
It surprised me how many food items that i have in my (Dutch) pantry have Chinese ingredients in them.
I had some pre-mixed spice bottles for potatoes, meat, and chicken that were packaged in China, containing (probably Chinese) salt and garlic.
I also bought like 25 cans of Chicken Chow Mein (Bami Goreng) from Aldi with "Ingredients of diverse origins (EU and NON-EU).
The Chow Mein contains Xanthan Gum and is most likely Chinese...
I also had Mayonnaise and Mustard from obscure and major brands containing either (EU additive) thickening agents E-415 or E-407, which are Carrageenan and Xanthan Gum.
I've gone through my entire pantry and thrown out all the foods that have these imported additive ingredients.
I've thrown out about 40lbs of food stuffs that i was still planning to eat, which turned out to be sketchy.
This video and others like it have greatly alerted me to ingredients to avoid, and how to REALLY CRITICALLY look at the food i buy.
Thanks so much!
Honestly, your risk with additives like Carrageenan (it's seaweed!) and Xanthan Gum are low. Meat products and milk products are the most at risk, and I would never ever buy canned meat products. You don't know what has gone into them. Same with pate and meat paste, sausage, fishballs and minced meat.
Me starving myself because that's all I eat
I had to eat Dutch versions of U.S. foods while volunteering in Africa. I KNEW that stuff didn't taste right. It makes me wonder what all was in it.
@@matthewmosier8439 You mean the Dutch versions didn't taste right, or the US versions?
@@DeeDee-pw9pm The Dutch version (I understand it was cheap) tasted fake. "Hot dogs" are as close to mystery meat as the U.S. generally gets and the Dutch version was awful and had the consistency of rubber. There was a big Thanksgiving Day celebration for the people who were Americans (I appreciated that) but the food was unrecognizable. Tastless and weird.
after the milk powder problem you would think at least one company had the common sense to make it as it should be, expense an all. they would have cleaned up. we actually had a problem with chinese people here buying up all the milk powder from the shops. you would pretty much have to pre pay for the next day if you needed any an watch your hands when picking it up as it wasnt unusual for someone to try an snatch it.
What's truly scary is in the USA, just in 2022, there have been 1,812 recalled items, many are American brands too. Everything from men's vitamins spiked with Tadalafil (boner medication), Jif peanut butter with salmonella, skittles with metal bits and 100s of products with undisclosed peanuts. Its amazing how little big companies care for our health.
If the didn’t care they would still be allowed to sell those recalled products.
It scares me that so much of our supplements are sourced there. How rigorously are they testing the raw materials?
supplements are unregulated, you could be just swallowing dirt or worse yet, paint flakes.
@@wudchk indeed. One must do their research and then do more research before taking anything into their mouths. Thankfully the brands of supplements I have been using are effective, at least the ones whose levels can be detected in the blood.
Anyone else get an ad for ice cream during this? The algorithm has zero self-awareness!
Sounds wonderful.😀 Carrageenan Side-effects. Some studies on animals have shown that carrageenan has shown side effects that can possibly occur in humans as well. Inflammation, bloating, irritable bowel syndrome and IBD, glucose intolerance, colon cancer, food allergies etc. are some of the issues of concern.
At what dosages?
@@zepher664 Not sure, it would take some research, but if it's cheaper than the stuff that's supposed to be in ice cream you can bet the Chinese are packing it in there.
Interestingly, those side-effects are from poligeenan, not carrageenan.
TL, DR: 30 years ago a researcher referred to poligeenan as "degraded carrageenan" and because of that some scientifically illiterate people have run with the idea that carrageenan has the same properties.
It doesn't.
You even make them in the explicitly opposite way: carrageenan is made by processing it with alkaline (bases), poligeenan is made by processing with acids.
The former is used for foods and is safe for consumption as far as anyone can tell.
The latter is used for clinical diagnostics and is *not* safe for consumption, and thus is not used in food.
Basically it seems like this time China Insights got mislead by sensationalists. :
Omg, it's such a shame china doesn't bother to regulate food to even a basic degree of not having harmful "ingredients." All of these bad regulations and laws will catch up with them very soon..
@@DisgruntledArtist 🤣🤣🤣 Here you are again, the chicom social credit seeker.
polluted water, terrible air quality, messed up food and to top it off being governed by a currupt dictator. my heart hurts for chinese citizens idk how they do it . i really dont know bruh wtf
maybe they would be better off if they werent constantly trying to screw each other over to make a quick buck. it isnt all the fault of the government. the government isnt the one making these terrible foods.
@@adrianc6534 i'm talking about the country as a whole and yes it is goverments fault for the state of the country.
*corrupt and I don't think the population will handle it for much longer.
I've said this many times but I'll say it again; the population either overthrows the government or faces a real possibility of extinction (from a die-off or war).
Because usurping the govt/mafia/whatever-the-fuck-it-is is impossible at this point, I don't have to tell you what the logical conclusion is.
Actually it makes for an interesting but really fucked up thought experiment.
A government who has crushed all forms of dissent wages a meat-grinder of a war against an outside party.
Its subjects and goons are getting annihilated by the defenders and their allies; but have no means to overthrow the government and/or sue for peace.
I'd love to hear from others how this whole fiasco will play out for the little people and the ruling cabal.
I've spent much of my adult life with renal colic caused by chronic kidney stones. It has driven me, several times, to attempt to end my suffering permanently. The thought of a company, knowingly subjecting innocent infants to that sort of pain for the sake of profits is beyond appalling. I used to be firmly opposed to capital punishment but stories like this one have changed my opinion. Given the opportunity, I would happily watch anyone who knowingly did such a thing experience the ultimate punishment.
Walmarts ice cream doesn't melt either. Don't believe me? There's loads of videos that prove it.