Each episode focuses on an individual with some form of eating disorder, often a selective eating disorder (an extremely restricted diet, often to the point of avoiding entire food groups), or food neophobia.
With the help of a team of specialist experts, techniques are employed to help the person overcome their eating problems and develop more healthy diets.
In Series 1, the specialist experts were nutritionist Natalie Savona and psychological coach Benjamin Fry.
On the Richard Bacon BBC Radio 5 Live show in December 2010, Harry Hill, who had regularly lampooned Freaky Eaters on Harry Hill's TV Burp, stated he had been told by a producer of Freaky Eaters that his coverage of the show was the reason it had been commissioned for a second and third series.
[5] Freaky Eaters spawned an American version that aired on TLC[6] from September 2010 to June 2011.