The Food Chain Episodes Episode guide
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12/06/2025 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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05/06/2025 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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29/05/2025 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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22/05/2025 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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15/05/2025 GMT
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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Stress, eat, repeat?
What happens to our eating habits when we’re stressed, and how to change that (R)
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A fresh start
The bakeries and eateries employing staff with criminal records or history of addiction
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Food cottage industries
We hear from the women making food products at home as a source of income
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What’s the future for Indigenous food?
First Nations people in Canada talk about opportunities and barriers to food security.
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The packaging problem
Sustainable packaging is evolving, but will consumer habits catch up?
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How to run a local shop
Why convenience stores are having to change to stay in business
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The power of the review
How reviews are changing and what that means for restaurants
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Why is saffron so expensive?
What it takes to harvest the world’s priciest spice
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The art of food branding
The designers influencing what and where you eat
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Why we love noodles
The history and evolution of this popular food
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Bouillon: The story of stock
How the simplest dish influenced restaurants and cuisine today
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Masters of the craft
What motivates someone to dedicate years of their life to learning one skill?
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How to make a TV cooking show
Three TV cooking programme producers provide the secret ingredients to a hit cooking show
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The world's oldest restaurants
How has the oldest restaurant in the world stayed open for 300 years?
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Crunch!
Why we like crunchy foods, and what benefits they might have
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Is anyone following dietary guidelines?
Exploring how realistic official healthy-eating advice is
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Should we eat less rice?
This staple grain is impacted by and contributes to climate change
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What's the point of cookbooks?
We ask why people are still willing to pay for recipes
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The Food Chain
The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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Has Christmas food gone mad?
Inside the race for creating the most eye-catching festive flavours
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Stadium food
The best – and worst – things to eat at sports grounds across the world
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Croffle, anyone?
The rise of the dessert café and the extraordinary creations it’s spawned
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How did fast food become so successful?
The story of how fast-food chains took over the world
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We are 10!
We are celebrating 10 years of The Food Chain with some of our favourite moments
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Just vanilla
Underappreciated and unfairly maligned. Is vanilla worth reconsidering?