Does COOK add additives/preservatives to the meals?

We makes meals like a home cook – by hand from store-cupboard ingredients.  

While we don’t add preservatives or additives, we list every ingredients we use on the packaging, which includes ingredients in ingredients we use.

Where you see additives like emulsifiers or acidity regulators listed in brackets, they aren't added to to the recipe in our kitchens, they are contained as sub-ingredients of the ingredients within the recipe.

Common kitchen cupboard ingredients like bread, meat stocks, jams etc. will often contain additives and as we've always used the types of ingredients many customers use in their own kitchens, these will sometimes appear in our meals. However, we are looking at all of our ingredients in a bid to make our meals as clean as possible. We've already trialled a new clean label bread in our recipes which we'll be switching over to and have more ingredient switches planned.

While it is not always possible, we will try to find additive-free alternatives without affecting the great quality and taste our customers know and love. To do that we need to make sure we thoroughly test any new ingredients in our recipes, this will take some time and we are committed to the journey. Our website information will be updated as we progress in this area, but the most up to date information can be found on the label.