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Are you sure it wasn't from Canada? I love Maille and every jar I've purchased in the US was from Canada.

I've never had the French stuff to compare its quality, however.

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France gets most of their mustard seeds from Canada, much to the average person's surprise:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/27/france-musta...

You’re probably right, I didn’t realize that it came from Canada until I read more comments in this thread. I just assumed it was made here in the US when I saw the “nutritional facts” label on the back (they don’t do that in France). If you ever get a chance to taste the real thing, try it! Absolutely delicious with steak!

That's required labeling in the US. Has zip to do with country of origin.

> they don’t do that in France

That's just wrong, food products are labelled according to european regulation number 1169/2011. Moreover, you often find nutri-score labels on the front face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutri-Score

I don't think that's what was meant. US nutrition facts are laid out in an exact format, down to fonts and allowable variations for tall and wide packages, they're instantly recognizable. I suspect this is true in EU countries as well.

Import products are allowed to have a sticker with the information on it, and either the official style isn't required or no one cares. Point being you can tell an imported product which wasn't pre-packaged for the US market, because it won't have what we call the nutrition facts label.

I was referring to the overall [0]format that the USA uses to display the information. Of course, every country has their own version of this. The format I saw on the jar here led me to believe that it was not imported. Nutriscore is pretty new for France.

[0] France: https://world.openfoodfacts.org/images/products/872/270/003/...

[0] USA: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81SM0Jir27L._SL1500_.jpg

Yes but it doesn't require the origin of the ingredients, I think that's what the previous poster was referring to?

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