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What's Really In Our Food?

Food, New Zealand, Science|2009|G

This New Zealand-made doco series investigates the food we eat, exploring where it comes from and how it is made, demystifying the science, testing the ingredients and translating the labels. The programme offers a guide on what to eat to improve physical and mental performance and what nasties to avoid, from pesticides to superbugs and plastic residues. It features international food experts – leading medical professionals, scientists and nutritionists – who unravel the processes involved in the production of our food. Presented by Petra Bagust in a lively, entertaining style, it appeals to a wide range of eaters, covering everything from chicken nuggets to oysters.

CastPetra Bagust
Episode 1: Chicken

Episode 1: Chicken

Chicken makes up a billion dollar industry, but does the way we raise our chickens affect the food we eat?

Chicken makes up a billion dollar industry, but does the way we raise our chickens affect the food we eat?

Episode 2: Fish

Fish is traditionally seen as a healthy food, but today there's lots of talk of heavy metals and dioxins in our seafood. So what should we believe?

Fish is traditionally seen as a healthy food, but today there's lots of talk of heavy metals and dioxins in our seafood. So what should we believe?

Episode 3: Breakfast

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but the bowl of cereal that we eat every morning could have more salt in it than a bag of chips, and more sugar than a can of coke.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but the bowl of cereal that we eat every morning could have more salt in it than a bag of chips, and more sugar than a can of coke.

Episode 4: Sausage and Bacon

Processed meat can make for a convenient meal, but how much of it is really meat? And what else is in it?

Processed meat can make for a convenient meal, but how much of it is really meat? And what else is in it?

Episode 6: Junk Food

Sugar, fat and salt are the three big nasties in our modern diet, and they're lurking in junk food - those delicious treats we can't resist.

Sugar, fat and salt are the three big nasties in our modern diet, and they're lurking in junk food - those delicious treats we can't resist.

Episode 7: Packaging

The packaging around our food protects the food and makes it look good, but sometimes it misleads us, and some plastic packaging contains potentially harmful chemicals that can pass into our food.

The packaging around our food protects the food and makes it look good, but sometimes it misleads us, and some plastic packaging contains potentially harmful chemicals that can pass into our food.

Episode 8: Bread and Butter

Carbohydrates have come under fire lately with diets like the Atkins diet suggesting that we should avoid them wherever possible.

Carbohydrates have come under fire lately with diets like the Atkins diet suggesting that we should avoid them wherever possible.

Episode 9: Coffee

Coffee contains caffeine, the most widely consumed drug in the world.

Coffee contains caffeine, the most widely consumed drug in the world.

Episode 10: Country of Origin

We eat a huge variety of food from all over the world, but without country-of-origin labeling, we do not always know what conditions it has been grown or manufactured in, or how safe it is.

We eat a huge variety of food from all over the world, but without country-of-origin labeling, we do not always know what conditions it has been grown or manufactured in, or how safe it is.