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Rip Off Britain: Food: Series 1: Episode 7

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Rip Off Britain: Food

Episode 7

Food: Series 1

BBC One - Rip Off Britain, Food: Series 1, Episode 7

The team expose some of the unexpected ingredients that go into our favourite foods.

Consumer series. The team expose some of the unexpected ingredients that go into our favourite foods, such as crushed beetle, and investigate misleading labels.

Angela Rippon, Gloria Hunniford and Julia Somerville get to grips with more complaints from viewers about food and drink, revealing the things the labels do not always make clear. 

The team also expose some of the unexpected ingredients that go into our favourite foods, such as crushed beetle, and reveal why adding one word to the label can mean that the food you are buying does not have to contain any of what you might have thought was the main ingredient. 

Plus, why some of the country's biggest household names have refused to sign up to the new labelling scheme designed to make it easier for us to eat healthily.

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Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food.

Gloria Hunniford, Angela Rippon and Julia Somerville investigate the truth about our food in a series exposing everything from the secrets of the supermarkets to the truth behind the labels.

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