Thumbs up: Tesco is to launch its first range of bread made without artificial additives.

Major food companies are trying to shed artificial additives from their well-known brands to create healthier products.

Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out.

Dining out or getting take out usually means higher salt intake and a host of artificial additives.

New evidence has emerged about a possible link between artificial additives in food and hyperactive behaviour in children.

The supermarket chain Asda is cutting artificial additives from all its own-brand food and soft drinks, it announced today.

So customers have no choice but to believe companies when they say they don't use artificial additives in their flavors.

The defining factor is that food must closely resemble their natural state with little or no processing and no artificial additives.

I didn't know about all the artificial additives and nasties that go into normal tea you get off a supermarket shelf, Melissa says.