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Gregg Wallace visits a factory in rural Somerset that produces one million pots of yoghurt every 24 hours, while Cherry Healey helps out with the UK鈥檚 biggest blackcurrant harvest.

We eat them for breakfast, pack them in our lunch boxes and enjoy them for dessert; here in the UK we spend 拢1.4 billion a year on yoghurt pots. Gregg Wallace visits a factory in rural Somerset that produces one million pots of it every 24 hours. He meets the herd of Friesian cows that provide the milk, sees how the milk is processed and has a bacterial culture added, and watches how the extraordinary packing process takes place.

Meanwhile, Cherry Healey helps out with the UK鈥檚 biggest blackcurrant harvest, trying out plant based alternatives to milk and visiting a factory that makes food-safe yoghurt pots from 100% recycled material.

Also, historian Ruth Goodman hops on board the story of the electric milk float and tackles the contentious origins of the cream tea.

59 minutes

Last on

Thu 9 Feb 2023 19:00
主播大秀 Two

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  • 00:02

    Kodaline

    Worth It

  • 00:02

    Ed Sheeran

    Castle On The Hill

  • 00:03

    Sigala

    Came Here For Love (feat. Ella Eyre)

  • 00:05

    Olly Murs

    Stick With Me

  • 00:14

    AlunaGeorge

    You Know You Like It

  • 00:15

    Jonas Blue

    Perfect Strangers

  • 00:19

    Mumford & Sons

    Guiding Light

  • 00:19

    Paloma Faith

    Ready For The Good Life

  • 00:23

    Madness

    Driving In My Car

  • 00:25

    ALMA

    Chasing Highs

  • 00:33

    Jess Glynne

    Don't Be So Hard On Yourself

  • 00:35

    Happy Mondays

    Step On

  • 00:35

    Happy Mondays

    He's Gonna Step On You Again

  • 00:36

    Zak Abel

    Love Song

  • 00:37

    Zak Abel

    Love Song

  • 00:37

    Eurythmics

    Sweet Dreams

  • 00:43

    Manic Street Preachers

    Show Me The Wonder

  • 00:44

    Bad Sounds

    Couldn't Give It Away

  • 00:45

    Lily Allen

    Smile

  • 00:48

    Rizzle Kicks

    Lost Generation

  • 00:49

    MGMT

    Kids

  • 00:56

    The Vaccines

    Handsome

  • 00:58

    CHVRCHES

    Never Ending Circles

Credits

Presenter Gregg Wallace
Presenter Cherry Healey
Presenter Ruth Goodman
Director Gavin Ahern
Series Producer Nicola Lafferty
Executive Producer Lucy Carter
Executive Producer Sanjay Singhal
Production Company Voltage TV

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