The Secrets of Your Food (2017 - 2017)

Name: The Secrets of Your Food
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-02-24
Rating: 9.0
Cast: James Wong, Michael Mosley

Documentary

Michael Mosley and James Wong reveal the delicious physics, chemistry and biology hidden inside our food.

James Wong

Himself - Presenter

Michael Mosley

Himself - Presenter

Status: Ended
First Aired: 2017-02-24
Seasons: 1 seasons
Rating: ★ 9.0 / 10

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Season 1Episode 250 min

A Matter of Taste

Michael heads to Spain to search for some of the most powerful tastes on the planet, whilst James travels high in the Peruvian Andes to discover how a bitter potato - a cousin of the humble spud - has been tamed to help the inhabitants survive the extreme altitude. Using the latest imaging techniques to take us inside our food, right down to the molecular level, Michael and James offer us a whole new way of thinking about taste: far more than being just delicious, it's actually a matter of survival.

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We Are What We Eat

50 min

In the opening episode, they explore how this chemistry fuels and builds our bodies. Michael begins by trying the first meal most of us enjoyed, human breast milk, which contains everything a baby needs - fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals. As we grow, we continue to seek the same chemistry in our diet but from a wide variety of scrumptious fare as Michael and James discover. In San Francisco, they unravel why sourdough bread is so good for us, in the Philippines, they learn how a river weed - rice - has become a comforting staple food, and in Bulgaria, they discover why letting your mushrooms sunbathe may help you get a calcium boost from your dairy food.