Article: My week of additives; Even if we try to eat healthily, it can be impossible to avoid harmful E-numbers Health&Fitness.

Byline: ALICE HART-DAVIS

IT is enough to put you off your food. Last week's Which? report showed just how widely spread is the use of unappetising additives in the staples most of us think are mercifully free of potentially damaging E-numbers. But do you really know how many you consume in a typical week, even if you try to eat healthily?

Catherine Hancock, 37, works at designer fashion shop Charlotte Smith, in Chelsea. Like many, she needs a quick breakfast, a convenient lunch, something to bolster her blood-sugar levels during the afternoon, and has little energy to bother with a "proper" evening meal.

For the Evening Standard, she kept a ...

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