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The Best Episodes of Food Unwrapped

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Food Unwrapped Season 8 Episode 1 - Dates, Sausages, Apples
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #1 - Dates, Sausages, Apples

    S8:E1

    What exactly is processed meat, and is a fresh British banger healthier than a frankfurter? Jimmy investigates dates. And Matt meets a man who has 250 varieties of apple on his tree.

    Director:Unknown
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  2. Food Unwrapped Season 2 Episode 7 - Avocados, Eggs and Balsamico
    7.0/10(5 votes)

    #2 - Avocados, Eggs and Balsamico

    S2:E7

    Does a happy chicken lay a tastier egg? How do the supermarkets get avocados 'ripe and ready'? And why does one type of balsamic vinegar cost 100 times more than another?

    Director:Unknown
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  3. Food Unwrapped Season 2 Episode 2 - Kebab, Oysters and Gin
    6.8/10(5 votes)

    #3 - Kebab, Oysters and Gin

    S2:E2

    Jimmy Doherty asks: what exactly is in a doner kebab? Meanwhile, Kate Quilton wants to find out the safest way of eating oysters. And finally, Matt Tebbutt learns about the amazing ingredient that comes in every bottle of that classic English tipple gin.

    Director:Unknown
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  4. Food Unwrapped Season 2 Episode 4 - Beef Stock, Processed Cheese and Corn Flakes
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Beef Stock, Processed Cheese and Corn Flakes

    S2:E4

    Jimmy, Kate and Matt ask how much cow is in a beef stock cube, how cornflakes are made, and what exactly processed cheese is.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Food Unwrapped Season 12 Episode 1 - Marmite, Plastic, Custard
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Marmite, Plastic, Custard

    S12:E1

    Jimmy examines how plastic packaging is polluting the food chain with potentially global implications. Is it really possible to predict if you'll love or hate Marmite? Matt runs across a custard pond.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Food Unwrapped Season 12 Episode 2 - Orange Squash, Maple Syrup, Biscuits
    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Orange Squash, Maple Syrup, Biscuits

    S12:E2

    How much orange is in orange squash? Why's maple syrup so expensive? And what's with all those little holes on biscuits?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Food Unwrapped Season 15 Episode 8 - Fizzy Sweets, Vitamin D, Mushrooms, Raw Kale
    6.0/10(5 votes)

    #7 - Fizzy Sweets, Vitamin D, Mushrooms, Raw Kale

    S15:E8

    What gives fizzy sweets their fizz, and can you harness their explosive power in a rocket? One in five of us lack vitamin D; can mushrooms help? And is raw kale bad for you?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Food Unwrapped Season 13 Episode 5 - Coffee Pods, Baby Carrots, Vanilla Ice Cream
    5.6/10(5 votes)

    #8 - Coffee Pods, Baby Carrots, Vanilla Ice Cream

    S13:E5

    Why are some vanilla ice creams more expensive than others? Are baby carrots really babies? And how can coffees have lots of flavours when they use just two types of coffee beans?

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Food Unwrapped Season 1 Episode 1 - Grapefruit and Probiotics
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Grapefruit and Probiotics

    S1:E1

    Kate Quilton travels to Swaziland to find out how they get tinned grapefruit so perfect, and, in Finland, Matt Tebbutt discovers exactly what the bacteria are in Probiotics.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Food Unwrapped Season 1 Episode 2 - Lemons and Ham
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Lemons and Ham

    S1:E2

    Kate and Matt investigate the wax on our lemons in Spain and Thailand, and Matt gets the real story behind formed ham here in the UK.

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  11. Food Unwrapped Season 1 Episode 3 - Prawns and Mushrooms
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Prawns and Mushrooms

    S1:E3

    This episode explores how prawns are intensively farmed and discovers why there are often so few wild mushrooms in our wild mushroom soups. Kate flies to Thailand - the world's biggest producer of farmed prawns - to get a sense of the scale of the industry, and Matt meets a professional wild mushroom forager in the woods of West Sussex.

    Director:Unknown
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  12. Food Unwrapped Season 1 Episode 4 - Olives and Beer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Olives and Beer

    S1:E4

    This episode explores the difference between green and black olives, and why not everything that goes into beer processing is listed in the ingredients. Matt travels to South Africa to visit one of the country's largest olive orchards in the Western Cape, where he discovers that black olives are just riper green olives, but that both need a year's soaking in brine to make them edible. In Spain, Kate is shown how mass production factories make super black olives found in pizza and salads. And Matt heads to a small brewery near Belfast to discover if it really is just water, hops, barley and wheat in beer.

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  13. Food Unwrapped Season 1 Episode 5 - Seafood Sticks and Wine
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Seafood Sticks and Wine

    S1:E5

    The team head to Thailand to find out what seafood goes into seafood sticks, and then discover how some British wine is really made... in Spain. In a seafood stick factory in Thailand Kate sees some incredible production techniques and giant frozen blocks of fish called surimi. Confusingly, there are two types of domestically produced wines: British and English. British wine is much cheaper, so what's the difference?

    Director:Unknown
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  14. Food Unwrapped Season 1 Episode 6 - Orange Juice and Mayonnaise
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Orange Juice and Mayonnaise

    S1:E6

    Kate Quilton heads to Spain to find out how pure squeezed, not-from-concentrate orange juice is really made, and how 'fresh' it is. The team then travel around the UK to find out what is used to replace the fat in low-fat mayonnaise, and discover it's a bacteria that usually grows on rotting cabbages.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Food Unwrapped Season 1 Episode 7 - Tomatoes and Strawberry Flavour
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Tomatoes and Strawberry Flavour

    S1:E7

    Kate Quilton travels to Holland to find out how manufacturers prevent tomatoes in packaged sandwiches from going soggy, and the team investigates the production of strawberry-flavoured food. Matt Tebbutt and Rachel Edwards-Stuart try to make yoghurt with the average amount of the fruit used in supermarket-own brands - 10 per cent - but the results are disappointing, while Martin Dickie visits the Nestle Rowntree factory to learn about the concentrated strawberry flavour used in their pastilles.

    Director:Unknown
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  16. Food Unwrapped Season 1 Episode 8 - Sausages and Ice-Cream
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Sausages and Ice-Cream

    S1:E8

    Matt Tebbutt travels to Sweden to learn how a food company uses liquid smoke to flavour sausages, a method that is cheaper and quicker and enables flavours to be tailored more effectively. The Food Standards Agency requires that ice-cream needs to contain milk protein and any kind of fat - vegetable being the one most commonly used. Martin Dickie and James Watt head to Brighton beach with an old-fashioned bicycle adorned with banners saying `Ice Vegetable Oil'. What will the public make of this product?

    Director:Unknown
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  17. Food Unwrapped Season 2 Episode 1 - Mouldy Bread, Chicken Kiev and Apples
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Mouldy Bread, Chicken Kiev and Apples

    S2:E1

    The team ask: is mouldy bread safe to eat? Kate's on the trail of the chicken that goes into a Kiev. And Matt is puzzled: how can supermarkets sell English summer apples in the middle of winter?

    Director:Unknown
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  18. Food Unwrapped Season 2 Episode 3 - Cashew, Scampi and Salt
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Cashew, Scampi and Salt

    S2:E3

    The team ask: Why are cashew nuts never on the supermarket shelf in their shells? What exactly is scampi? Does expensive salt taste different to cheap salt?

    Director:Unknown
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  19. Food Unwrapped Season 2 Episode 5 - Caffeine, Gum and Diet Bread
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Caffeine, Gum and Diet Bread

    S2:E5

    How is caffeine removed from coffee? What puts the chew into chewing gum? How are the calories counted in diet bread?

    Director:Unknown
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  20. Food Unwrapped Season 2 Episode 6 - Chillies, Pork and Food Dye
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Chillies, Pork and Food Dye

    S2:E6

    Can hot chilies injure you? What's the difference between outdoor-bred and outdoor-reared pork? And what's bugging Jimmy about red food dye?

    Director:Unknown
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  21. Food Unwrapped Season 2 Episode 8 - Sardines, Ducks and Pasta
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Sardines, Ducks and Pasta

    S2:E8

    Are fresh sardines better for us than tinned sardines? How much is known about the ducks we consume? And, when it comes to pasta, is fresh best?

    Director:Unknown
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  22. Food Unwrapped Season 3 Episode 1 - Cheesy Creatures
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Cheesy Creatures

    S3:E1

    Jimmy discovers that there's more to traditionally-matured cheese than meets the eye, thanks to a microorganism that helps give the likes of pecorino their distinctive hard rinds

    Director:Unknown
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  23. Food Unwrapped Season 3 Episode 2 - Cod Wars
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Cod Wars

    S3:E2

    Jimmy Doherty finds out why Iceland supplies most of our cod. Kate Quilton investigates whether the banana's days are numbered. And Matt Tebbutt discovers why popcorn doesn't fill you up.

    Director:Unknown
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  24. Food Unwrapped Season 3 Episode 3 - Milking It
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Milking It

    S3:E3

    Kate visits France to find out if a glass of red wine a day keeps the doctor away. Matt lifts the lid on skimmed milk. How do dairy farmers get exactly the right amount of fat in every pint of milk?

    Director:Unknown
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  25. Food Unwrapped Season 3 Episode 4 - Caviar Conversation
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Caviar Conversation

    S3:E4

    Jimmy investigates whether manuka honey has any medicinal properties. Kate discovers why some varieties of caviar are so much cheaper than others. And Matt visits a Scottish distillery.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Dates, Sausages, Apples" is the best rated episode of "Food Unwrapped". It scored 7.8/10 based on 5 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 5/9/2016. This episode scored 0.8 points higher than the second highest rated, "Avocados, Eggs and Balsamico".