Pizza Hut to remove artificial preservatives in recipes from 2017

US-based fast food chain Pizza Hut has announced that it will eliminate artificial preservatives and use antibiotics-free chicken in its recipes from 2017.

Last year, the pizza chain removed artificial colours and flavours from its pizzas.

Pizza Hut will stop the usage of meat that contains butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) / butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) in its US restaurants from July this year. BHA and BHT are used as meat preservatives.

Although chicken used in its pizza as toppings will be free of antibiotics from March next year, chicken wings will not be antibiotics-free.

Pizza Hut concept officer and chief brand said: "We believe that Pizza Hut food shouldn’t only taste great, but you should feel great about it, too.

"Our enhanced and expanded commitment to superior restaurant-quality food is the result of listening closely to our customers, and they say that these are things that they do not want in their pizzas."

Pizza Hut has 6,400 outlets in the US.

Last year, McDonald’s stopped the use of milk and chicken that were drawn from animals injected with antibiotics. This announcement was followed by Subway, which stated that it will use antibiotics-free chicken in its sandwiches

Taco Bell also plans to use antibiotic-free chicken at its US restaurants from next year.