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| I have to admit, the Swiss are definately better at being motivated to exercise but I find they think a little too highly about their "quality of food" (have heard them often saying it's better quality than Germany). In the beginning I didn't pay too much attention to the ingredients but after a few unpleasant surprises and quickly turning to the package ingredients... I realized in many ways the products here are chalked full of way more chemicals and crap than when I lived in Germany. I was astonished to find aspartame in everything from normal fruit beverages to yogurt... and Aromat is pure MSG... what's up with that?! I dunno... if the food is such super quality, you don't need that kind of crap in it (just my opinion) I'm a lot more careful now. I do have to give the Swiss Kudos for their health food stores. The one here in Chur is by far better than any store I've visited in my old area of Germany. | |
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"better than in Germany" ? I mean what comparison ! I have eaten most excellently in places like München, Lindau, Friedrichshafen, Konstanz, Freiburg/Breisgau, Stuttgart, Bonn, Köln and Leipzig. Just to name a few. And the products ? The agricultural products not just are usually cheaper, quite many really are excellent. Look closely at what you get in shops overhere. How many German products are on sale.
If you so care about chemicals, you however have to stop on soft drinks and even on orange juice. Most such products are pepped up by products of Givaudan and Firmenich. I once on a visit to Tel Aviv saw the slogans of a company selling orange juice and proclaiming in English "directly from the Kibbutz", while I just the week before have had an airfreight shipment of Givaudan to exactly this company
