🍝 Why do SO many Americans travel to Italy and suddenly feel fine eating bread, pasta, gelato, and cheese — even after years of bloating like crazy eating wheat and dairy at home?
In this video, we break down what’s really going on behind the Italy food effect — and why the same foods feel completely different in the U.S.:
🇮🇹 Why Americans can eat pasta, pizza, and dairy in Italy without issues
🌾 How American wheat is bred for yield, shelf life, and speed — not digestibility
🧪 The role glyphosate and ultra-processing play in food intolerance
🧀 Why Italian dairy is often fresher, more local, and easier to digest
🧾 How identical “macros” hide radically different ingredient quality
🍕 Why Italian food uses fewer ingredients — and why that matters
🚶 How slower meals, smaller portions, and daily walking change digestion📦 The hidden cost of ultra-processed snacks being everywhere in the U.S.
This is about food quality, food culture, and what happens when meals become industrial products instead of something meant to nourish you.
Once you start paying attention to ingredients, sourcing, and how food fits into daily life, it becomes a lot easier to understand why people feel better eating abroad — and what you can do about it at home.
⚠️ Question for YOU: Have you ever eaten bread, pasta, or dairy in Europe and felt totally fine — but struggled with the same foods in the U.S.? Or vice versa? Drop your experience in the comments!
👉 If this made you rethink food in America, hit like, subscribe, and send this to that friend who thinks gluten, dairy, and life itself are all out to get them.
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Have YOU ever eaten bread, pasta, or dairy in Europe and felt totally fine — BUT struggled with the same foods in the U.S.? OR vice versa?
¨I am lactose intolerant…¨ Nope girl, you are not !!! You can´t deal with some of the many banned in Europe additives, used in what the US calls food. Crap we consider NOT for human consumption.
The real, huge problem in the United States is the chemicals allowed in food. Many products banned in food worldwide are allowed in your country. In Europe, for example, nothing can be added to food unless it's first scientifically proven to be harmless to humans. In the US, however, any substance can be added unless its toxicity is proven. Despite this, many substances are still used because they're toxic or carcinogenic, but only in high quantities. For example, I work in a candy factory in Italy. The candy we produce for the American market is banned in the rest of the world and is made specifically for this purpose. After producing it, we have to wash all the machines to avoid contaminating products for other countries. Usually, you can smell the scent of fruit during production, while American candy reeks of plastic and chemicals… it breaks my heart to think of children eating them. The most absurd thing is that the cost is not much different: American distributors are willing to poison their neighbors' children not to enrich themselves, but simply to scrape the bottom of the barrel and collect a few dollars at the end of the year (we're talking tens of dollars, not thousands).
Most italian wheat is imported from Canada (we're a tiny slice of land with 59.000.000 of people, there isn't enough land).
It's not the wheat, it's the process.
If you want some advice: stop using butter. We use almost NO butter, butter is "easy" and "cheap" but it's really hard to digest and not really bio-friendly.
Instead (as an Italian) use olive oil and cook it at lower temperatures to avoid denaturation.
mettete lo zucchero nel pane siete terribili, comunque finchè saremo un costo per la spesa sanitaria dello stato, lo stato cercherà di non farci ammalare il meno possibile a mia opinione
In the USA, people are systematically and deliberately poisoned by extremely dangerous chemical ingredients and other additives that are completely banned in Europe.
As an Italian, I tell you that the food is better, but the milk produced in Italy wouldn't be enough for Italians' breakfast, so how can they also have it for cheese and for export?
2:29 Well, that hand mill is a "hobbyist's" mill. Today, even in Italy, industrial mills run on electricity; we've evolved since the Middle Ages. 😁
Since when is a donut a healthy breakfast?
Most Cheese doesnt contain any lactose, cause it gets dissolved in the cheese making and ripening process.
As an italian woman i can say we don't use stone mill anymore( just in some rare case small cities)
BUT we have first of all more genuin products,from wheat to everything else. AND WE RESPECT THE TIMETABLE!!in Italy from 12 to 15 everything is CLOSED …you go home and eat slowly homemade food or you'll go in a nearby restaurant who made fresh homemade food!! We don't hurry,we always eat warm quality food and about the pizza. .that frozen pizza in supermarket are bought ONLY by strangers…an italian will eat FRESH PIZZA JUST MADE ALWAYS!!!
2:42 „GLYPHOSATE? RUN, YOU FOOLS!“ The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the WHO has classified glyphosate as *“probably carcinogenic to humans” (Group 2A)* since March 2015.[2][3][4]
In its Monograph, IARC explains that this Group 2A classification is based on *“limited” evidence of cancer in humans* (mainly non‑Hodgkin lymphoma) and *“sufficient” evidence of cancer in experimental animals**, along with **strong evidence of genotoxicity* for pure glyphosate and glyphosate formulations.[2]
IARC stresses that this is a *hazard classification**: it indicates that glyphosate *can cause cancer under some exposure conditions, but does not by itself quantify the actual risk at real‑life exposure levels.[2]
Every country in the European Union has FOOD HEALTH STANDARDS … compared to U.S. standards THEY DIFFER A LOT.
Due to different LAW approaches, in Europe you have to test a product to be save first BEFORE market – in USA you hope for the best and MAYBE get SUED.
7:28 „Italiens eat that for DECADES AND DECADES“😂😂😂 The People in the area eat bread in that area since Jesus Christ was born in year zero and the Romans conquered Europe.. so they eat similar things for CENTURIES AND CENTURIES … bread, cheese, olives/ oil , VEGETABLES, milk, …
Italiens DON‘T drink coffee WITH MILK after a WARM MEAL, because it MIGHT have a bad influence on digestion (HOT weather NO AC). Italiens think customer is king and DENY cappuccino after 12 to PROTECT THE KING (so he can come back next day) –
American customer KINGS give sh*t , think they know it better AND PAY THE PRICE.
SUGAR… USA 🇺🇸 REDUCE SUGAR- NO SUGAR SUBSTITUTES! LIVE the NATURAL SWEET life, live HEALTHY.
I once tried an American snack box and got deeply sick 😭😭
Healthy ingredients and a lot of walk, that's all
you mean food in europe vs America? or food in Italy vs the United states of America?
Marcus Garvey said what would happen to our people if we werent careful about taking in the "poisons of western society" he was referring to the society itself like the culture and institutions etc but little did he know that the food itself would soon be literal poison
Our government should care about our food system like Italy
In usa il pane ha 30 ingredienti 😂in Italia soltanto 3 acqua farina e lievito
Because US food is plastic
Italy, the entire EU, Japan, Australia, South America. Probably Middle East.
There are many countries that know how to eat.
Processed food is the issue.
You north american friend, find local food. The smaller the company that produces the food, the more likely it is to be healthy.
As a German who spent some time in the US I must have gotten lucky. Never had problems like bloating or skin irritations but I lived in the country side of Montana on farms and ranches…so it probably more due to location more then anything
It's Because, Fellow Americans, like in Politics, Work, almost everything in your culture, you create your enemies all by yourselves. Even in food. Simple as that.
Isn,t that obvious, you are eating the polson..
'Stone ground flour' 😂 What TF are you smoking? I lived in Europe my entire life (40+ years), in few different countries and never eaten stone ground flour. Maybe that one time when visiting a farm museum or something. Stop spreading nonsense. Ingredients are just better quality here and we have something Muricans fear the most. Food safety regulations. Mind you, we never wash eggs here and I never got salmonella.
The problem in USA is the sugar added to everything
If eating makes you feel bad, what's the point? In Italy if you see someone over 250 pounds, first you notice, then you start to pity the poor devil, then you come to the conclusion he must have some serious eating disorder. If you see two of them, it makes your day. We genuinely pity you guys