Demark bans Marmite under food safety regulations

[The Dragon Master]

Denmark has banned the savoury spread Marmite, saying its added vitamins and minerals break food safety laws.



By law, Danish authorities must give their permission for products with such additives to be sold.



In recent years they have banned several well-known items - including the chocolate malt drink Ovaltine and some breakfast cereals.



Already a shop in Copenhagen has been ordered to remove jars of the British delicacy from its shelves.



BBC Europe correspondent Chris Morris says there are suggestions that the Danish ban could break European law.



Outraged expats in Denmark are threatening a campaign of civil disobedience, he says.



Nutritionist Melanie Brown told the BBC she believed a ban on Marmite, which is rich in B-vitamins, as well riboflavin and niacin, was counterproductive.



Marmite plays such a useful part in many people's diet, and in my practice it's incredibly useful for older people...who are short in vitamin B-12.



It's full of folic acid, and there's lots of evidence that many women, young women of child-bearing age are deficient in folic acid, she said.



Kelloggs withdrew some brands of breakfast cereal from the country after the legislation passed in 2004 but Marmite had previously escaped unnoticed, reports the UK's Guardian newspaper.



What am I supposed to put on my toast now? the newspaper reported British advertising executive Colin Smith, who has lived in the country for six years, as saying.



I still have a bit left in the cupboard, but it's not going to last long.

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13536479



I know the stuffs disgusting, but does it have to be banned?

 

[Jazzy]

I've never tried Marmite but from reading the ingredients, I don't see why it's being banned.

 

[The Dragon Master]

There's no food additives or E numbers

 

[beowulf]

wonderful stuff.........food from the gods...nom nom nom

 

[Jazzy]

@beowulf: Sorry to be ignorant but does it have a particular taste to it? It's is sweet or nutty flavored?

 

[The Dragon Master]

@Jazzy: You have to actually eat it to get the flavour of it, the flavour's hard to define XD



@Beowulf: It's rank!

 

[Jazzy]

@Dragon: Why don't you like it?

 

[Evil Eye]

Wait... why are they banning this?

 

[The Dragon Master]

@Jazzy: [shudders] Taste it and you'll understand

@EE: Don't know

 

[Jazzy]

@Dragon: If I had some, I would try it just to see what it tastes like.

 

[Jazzy]

Ingredients and nutrition wise, it doesn't seem that healthy for you. Maybe that's why the ban?

Link: http://www.marmite.com/love/nutrition/nutrition.html

 

[Cinnamon]

Something so funny and bizarre about this subject. Thanks!



Things are crazy everywhere.

 

[Cranos]

It should be banned just because of the taste... XD

 

[Jazzy]

It should be banned just because of the taste... XD

Can you tell me what it tastes like?

 

[Cranos]

It's hard to explain but it has a pretty strong taste, kinda salty.

 

[Kasynlie]

The British Marmite is different to the NZ/AUS Marmite. Ours is much nicer, however, if you use too much you won't like it. It's one of those things that are only good in very small amounts.

 

[beowulf]

@beowulf: Sorry to be ignorant but does it have a particular taste to it? It's is sweet or nutty flavored?

lol...hard to describe......a sort of 'meaty' taste i guess......i use it in cooking and its delicious on toast or just fresh bread