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Who's Fooling with our Food? (6/6)

This is also part of this series: Jimmy's Food Factory (6)

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Subjects: Agriculture, Food Supply, Health Issues, Nutrition, Science, Technology

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 30 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2009
Available in French: No

Jimmy uncovers the tricks and techniques that food producers use to ensure we can enjoy favourite foods whenever we want. The British climate is not conducive to banana growing, so the fruit is picked while it is still green and flown here from thousands of miles away. Jimmy tries to copy the trick that banana suppliers use to artificially ripen them so they are ready for the supermarket. This leads him on to mushrooms, which normally only appear in the fields in autumn, but grace the supermarket shelves all year round.

If people relied on nature to supply salmon to supermarkets, they would find empty fridges for much of the year. However, at a salmon farm in Scotland, Jimmy discovers a plot to fool the fish into believing it is summer when, in fact, it is really winter.

In his barn, Jimmy attempts to turn some of his own farmed pork into square sandwich ham. He copies the square-ham factory production processes using 100 hypodermic needles, a bicycle pump, a cement mixer, a tin bath and a length of square drainpipe. He also explains how sandwich ham producers make people think the pink slices are cut from a single joint of meat, rather than lots of tiny pieces squashed together.

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