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Breakfast

Science series in which farmer Jimmy Doherty asks what goes into supermarket food. In this episode, he makes breakfast from scratch, looking at cornflakes and coffee.

In this entertaining new science series, farmer Jimmy Doherty asks: 'what really goes into supermarket food?'

To find out he takes a surprising and novel approach - he sets up his own food factory in a barn. Inside the barn he makes his own versions of supermarket food, knocking together make-shift factory production lines so we can see what they're really doing to our food.

In the first programme Jimmy makes breakfast from scratch. Why is the most nutritious part of the corn removed from cornflakes? Why do some cereal manufacturers add iron and other vitamins? If instant coffee isn't made by grinding up coffee beans, how is it made?

To find out Jimmy uses a floor sander, tumble dryer, laundry mangle and kitchen bins to copy the industrial grinders, dryers, rollers and vats used inside the real factory.

To complete his breakfast menu, Jimmy heads away from the barn to discover that some cows at a farm in Devon are being milked by robots and how a muddy root vegetable is turned into pure white sugar.

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 29 Oct 2023 12:00

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Jimmy Doherty
Executive Producer Greg Lanning
Producer Jerry Foulkes

Broadcasts

  • Wed 21 Oct 2009 19:30
  • Sat 24 Oct 2009 16:50
  • Wed 4 Nov 2009 01:50
  • Sun 8 Nov 2009 02:00
  • Sun 7 Feb 2010 17:30
  • Mon 27 Sep 2010 20:00
  • Sat 28 Oct 2023 12:00
  • Sun 29 Oct 2023 12:00