Food Unwrapped: Season 9
Season 9 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Food Unwrapped Season 8.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 9 Progress Shield
Green Beans, Scallops, Cornish Pasties
Sep 26, 2016 · 25 min
At a green bean plantation in Kenya, Jimmy learns how they grow the beans so straight for the supermarkets, and finds out what happens to the beans that don't make the grade. He al
Icing Sugar, Rice, Sandwiches
Oct 3, 2016 · 25 min
Kate visits Israel to unearth the mystery ingredient that makes icing sugar so light, fluffy and powdery. Her journey takes her via a dip in the Dead Sea to an enormous phosphate m
Pesto, Cockles, Marshmallows
Oct 10, 2016 · 25 min
Jimmy Doherty, Kate Quilton and Matt Tebbutt reveal more unusual, intriguing and surprising secrets behind the food we eat. Matt heads to Italy to find out how supermarkets can sel
Craft Beer, Tomatoes, Anchovies
Oct 17, 2016 · 25 min
Jimmy Doherty investigates craft beer, meeting a couple who gave up jobs in the NHS to pursue their dream lifestyle of brewing and selling ale. Kate Quilton goes in search of the p
British Cheese, Parma Ham, Limes
Oct 28, 2016 · 25 min
Jimmy Doherty visits the largest wholesale food market in the world in Paris and discovers why British cheese sales are soaring across Europe. Matt Tebbutt travels to one of the la
Skyr, Oysters, Dried Strawberries
Nov 4, 2016 · 25 min
Jimmy Doherty looks into skyr, a mysterious yoghurt-like product that claims to be entirely fat-free, but has a surprisingly creamy texture, while Kate Quilton heads to one of the
Parmesan, Paprika, Hard-Boiled Eggs
Nov 11, 2016 · 25 min
In Italy, Jimmy looks into why Parmesan costs up to twice as much as supermarket Cheddar. Kate's been puzzling over paprika and travels to Hungary and Spain to find out exactly whe
Dates, Almond Butter, Haggis
Nov 18, 2016 · 25 min
Jimmy's off to Israel on the trail of an elusive fruit - the fresh date. If raisins are dried grapes and prunes are dried plums, then what exactly are dates? Jimmy's search for the
Bell Peppers, Subterranean Salt, Coconut Oil, Brazil Nuts
Nov 25, 2016 · 47 min
Jimmy takes to the skies above Israel to join the battle to protect the bell pepper crop from the Mediterranean fruit fly, but is amazed to learn that it's not insecticide that he'