As a stubborn (and 'pesky') vegetarian I've taken an above average interest in food labels, ingredients and nutrition for the last twenty years. A series of programmes shot for BBC's Horizon explore some of the fads to hit our shelves and capture our paranoid imaginations in the quest for 'healthy' living amidst a media swimming in scares. I particularly enjoyed the gruff opinions of a university-based nutritionalist on the topic of what he called 'weasel words'. According to him, and a review of the robust research available re. the following hot topics, these words are tricky rodents not to be trusted:
Antioxidents
Superfoods
Organic
Probiotic
The programmes can be found here and are well worth a look.






