The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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The Cold Chain
The business of keeping food cool, from farm to fork
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The Secret Life of Packaging
Is the stuff your food comes wrapped in working for or against you?
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Man v Milk
How milk changed humans and humans changed milk
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Variety Pack
Turning straw into sugar, Lesotho's trout farms for Japanese sushi, healthy Dunkin Donuts
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Sugar: A Love-Hate Relationship
Does a little of what you fancy do you good - or should we avoid it at all costs?
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Feast
What does feasting say about human nature - and is it good for us?
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The Case For Meat
Does eating meat make us healthier and happier than eating a purely vegetarian diet?
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The Case Against Meat
Should we be eating meat? We examine the case against eating animals
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Food Technophobes v Technophiles
Food is increasingly engineered - who decides if a new food technology is safe?
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Whose Food is it Anyway?
What happens to a cuisine's national identity once it crosses international borders?
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Health by Stealth?
Companies are vying to improve junk food, but will customers actually want to eat it?
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Food and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
As politics changes - does our food follow suit?
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Why Do We Waste So Much Food?
Can business and science provide a solution to why we waste so much food?
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Super Foods or Super Fads?
Is our appetite for the trendiest health foods based on science, or clever marketing?
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Is Food too Cheap for our Own Good?
Food prices have slumped, despite the costs of production and transport going up
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The Food Chain
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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The Food Chain
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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The Food Chain
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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Front of House
Manuela Saragosa looks at the business of serving and pleasing the ever-fickle customer.
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Food Chain Late Night
We explore the characters and cuisines that come out after dark .
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Bonus Podcast: Death in Ice Valley
A special preview of the new podcast Death in Ice Valley
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Big Beer
We look at one of the world's biggest ever corporate takeovers, and it's all about beer.
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Animals on Antibiotics: Could Pigs on Pills Make us Ill?
Amid warnings we are heading into post-antibiotic era, we ask if farmers are to blame.
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28/10/2021 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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24/10/2019 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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24/10/2016 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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24/10/2016 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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24/10/2016 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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24/10/2016 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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24/10/2016 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
