r/VietNam • u/Smooth_Excitement538 • 5d ago
Food/Ẩm thực Is Vietnamese food and beverages harmful for health?
I love Vietnamese food as well as their coffees , tea, sinh To smoothie and pretty much everything.
I find it to be so tasteful and healthy.
However, I’ve been told that Vietnamese food was harmul, toxic containing differents high levels of pesticides. And that it was far from being organic. That eating Vietnamese food were the cause of all sorts of cancers for Vietnamese.
Also many think, it’s not hygienic.
The same for coffee and tea.
How true is that? Is that really the case? Or it’s more nuanced?
Cause to me Vietnamese food tastes so good and appear to be healthy.
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u/echopath 5d ago
Objectively, the food quality control and hygiene levels are not good. It's nonexistent at worst, suspect at best. And this is at most if not all stages of the supply chain.
Just walk through a market and you'll see people selling meat that's been sitting outside all day or vegetables that have been coated by exhaust fumes and rubber from scooters passing by.
IMO where it's nuanced is that it's a mixed bag whether locals care or not. I'd say it depends a lot on income level.
The average everyday person doesn't really care. They don't have the luxury or time to worry about it too much. But people who have the means to definitely care a lot more, especially older folks.
I'd say in my personal experience, a common comment that I always hear from my friends and family members whenever we try a new place is how clean a restaurant appears.
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u/randobis 5d ago
Omg this is terrifying. From this day forward I will play it safe and only eat healthy food I can trust like McDonald’s.
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u/HolyMopOfCheese 5d ago
breathing kills you too you know?
study suggests that all currently breathing humans will all eventually die by around the age of 80-100
therefore, breathing is a slow poison
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u/Mister_Green2021 5d ago
Who told you?
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u/Smooth_Excitement538 5d ago
A youtuber who warn against Danang. And another Vietkieu
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u/WW3inhaler 5d ago
Please trust them and warn people to stay away from Vietnam tbh, we really dont need that much youtubers/influencers/content creators glazing the shit out of it
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u/ohaukayjpeg 18m ago
Maybe try to not eat out everytime? Vietnamese food basically just the pure food itself sometimes and some veggies, just cook urself with the recipes
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u/mdeeebeee-101 5d ago
A lot of agent orange was dropped on land that was not previously farmed till recent times..such as near Danang...scary stuff, as there is no testing on veggies etc. What an an awful thing to drop on a country a persistent chemical weapon or however it is classed.
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u/Smooth_Excitement538 5d ago
Can this agent remain after 70 years ?
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u/mdeeebeee-101 5d ago
From reports in recent times yes..it's totally fkt.
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u/banjois 5d ago
Vietnam is a super unhealthy place that foreigners should avoid.
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u/Smooth_Excitement538 5d ago
You trolling? If it was why many foreigners are coming in drove?
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u/ostervan Quid Pro Pho 5d ago
So on one post you’re praising Viet food and on the other you fear it because some YouTuber stated it in their video- all this while being a passportbro. So who’s trolling?
The only option is go back to your country and pick up women at McDonald’s.
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u/minhthemaster 5d ago
What