Food Unwrapped - Season 9 - Eps 3: Pesto, Cockles, Marshmallows
Jimmy Doherty, Kate Quilton and Matt Tebbutt reveal more unusual, intriguing and surprising secrets behind the food we eat. Matt heads to Italy to find out how supermarkets can sell pesto at an affordable price when the traditional ingredients are expensive. He visits one of Europe's biggest pesto producers and takes a remarkable trip to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where basil is being grown in an extraordinary underwater farm. Jimmy wants to know why so many cockles in our supermarkets come from abroad, when he always thought of them as a quintessentially British staple. He visits Wales and the Wash, where two very different stories unfold, and witnesses a remarkable method of cockle gathering that has to be seen to be believed. And why do marshmallows go so crispy and melty at the same time over the campfire? Kate takes a colourful trip around Europe's largest marshmallow factory to find out.
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
