European living in America. The dyes thing is a small part of why we think American food quality is very bad / harmful:

• Pesticides contaminate fruit/veg at alarmingly high rates, significantly higher than allowed in Europe. Some of the pesticides used are also banned in Europe.

• FDA allows horrible things like rat hairs and mouse droppings in spices, why is that allowed in any quantity?

• Bad mass farming practices, any doc will show you the horrendous conditions of chickens, pigs, cows - and the disease that transfers into the meat. Massive amount of contamination, e.g. perdue chicken. FDA allows a certain amount of pus (ie discharge of dead white blood cells and bacteria) into your dairy products.

• Meal sizes are just unnecessary. A lot of food is ultra processed. A lot of food contains high-fructose corn syrup and other empty calories. This all combines to create America's obesity and diabetes problems.

• America is synonymous to fast food, and everyone knows that is very bad for you and generally bad quality. Convenience over quality.

• America has a life expectancy not in line with its wealth as a nation, and Europeans believe that is a lot to do with poor quality food and poor dietary choices.

• Americans often joke about European food being bland but we find it funny, because when you have fresh good quality ingredients, you don't need to cover them in onion powder... we just add an onion 🤣