Croissants: too much saturated fat, up to 34g per 100g

Vegetables: 73% of samples contained too many nitrates

Bread: one loaf in four has more salt than permitted by law

Pita: less than 25% provide information about type of meat, which is often fatty, of poor quality and a mixture of meats, including pork

Ice cream: one in three samples was contaminated by bacteria

Soft ice: 62% of samples had a “poor” or “very poor” level of bacteria

Alsace wine: too much sulphite in 22 of the 65 samples. “The label often provides the wine-lover with more publicity than real information,” the report said

Smoked salmon: More than half of the 27 samples failed the taste test

Meanwhile on the bright side:

Honey: only two samples in 21 contained traces of antibiotics, compared to 65% in 2003

Light lemonade: no traces of benzene found, compared to three products in 2007, when levels were 20 times higher than the limits for drinking water