What's really in our food? - BBC

 Tom Heap and Simon Boazman turn food detectives to find out what's really in the food we eat.

Heap and Boazman expose the world of food fraud - where people set out to deceive us about what we're eating. They talk to the industry insiders who say it's rife, and the food enforcers who are out to stop it. They meet the scientists who are using forensics to work out if someone's been messing with our food.

They go beyond what it says on the label -and show how salad sold as organic isn't actually what it claimed to be as it was washed with ethylene glycol, known to you and I as anti-freeze. They ask where the meat is really from and are shocked to find one label stating "Great British Menu" actually contains chicken from Thailand!.

Supermarket chicken can be found to contain water and hydrolysed proteins (creates damaging free glutamic acid a source of MSG), mixed with additives and minerals in order to keep the water from draining out while cooking. If you think about it, we purchase our meat based on weight, so that means if you purchase 600g of chicken and up to a third can be water you have only really paid for 400g of chicken. This is expensive water and very decptive too.However, you can see the profit margin this provides the manufacturer. It is great that this has been highlighted on a bbc television programme at last. The Food Standards Agency have been aware of these practises at least since 1997.

Food is the most important thing we buy - this one hour special revealed the truth about what we're putting in our mouths and were very pleased they did! We need to pay for what we want, good quality, nutrient building food. Where you know you will pay for 100% of the product and actually get 100% of the product, not 30% water or a host of chemicals to add to it!