A Matter of Taste -
food - delicious science

Travel the world with Michael Mosley and James Wong to learn about the science that makes our food taste delicious and the powerful effect it has on our tongue and nose.

Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 102

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About Food - Delicious Science:

Food - Delicious Science is the thrilling science story of the food on your plate and the physics, chemistry and biology that lies hidden inside every bite.

Across three episodes we use the latest imaging techniques to reveal this inner world of food and we reveal along the way why such a variety of foods have ended up in our diet and how they affect our lives.

When viewed at the microscopic level, food resembles a vast range of alien landscapes that shift in remarkable ways as we cook them.

Each time we eat, a cascade of biological reactions is set off inside our bodies: from flavor explosions in the mouth; to an energy rush; to occasionally triggering waves of disgust.

And how these ingrained human reactions and cravings for food have deep evolutionary roots that offer a whole new way of thinking about our relationship to the modern diet.

The science is set against sumptuous location photography shot across the world: from the oldest rice terraces in the Philippines to an ancient variety of potato in the Andes Mountains of Peru; from the corn fields of Mexico to the milk dairies of Bulgaria as we seek the origins of some our favorite foods to deepen our understanding of why we eat them.

This is food as you've never seen it before.