Food Unwrapped - Season 9 - Eps 1: Green Beans, Scallops, Cornish Pasties
At a green bean plantation in Kenya, Jimmy learns how they grow the beans so straight for the supermarkets, and finds out what happens to the beans that don't make the grade. He also discovers the remarkable lengths that the farmers go to to stop the local wildlife destroying their valuable crop. At a Norwegian scallop farm, Matt braves the icy waters of the North Sea to join the divers harvesting scallops by hand from the sea bed. This sustainable farming method could be a model for the rest of Europe, but it needs a constant source of baby scallops, so Matt gets hands-on in the hatchery as he learns how to encourage a scallop to procreate. And Kate tries to unravel a mystery about Cornwall's most famous local delicacy: what exactly goes into a Cornish Pasty, swede or turnip?
About Food Unwrapped
Title: Food Unwrapped
First Air Date: 2012-09-10
Last Air Date: 2025-01-31
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 7.3/10 (from 6 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 26
Total Episodes: 147
Network: Channel 4
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: Ricochet
Synopsis
The food and science series that travels the world to explore the industry secrets behind our favourite produce, industry secrets, and how foods are really made.
Cast
Kate Quilton
Self - Presenter
Matt Tebbutt
Self - Presenter
