Feeding Frenzy: Convenient Cuisine & Clever Food

Synopsis: Two programmes on the new food revolution, made in a collaboration between the BBC’s MONEY PROGRAMME and the Open University’s Open Business School.

FEEDING FRENZY: CONVENIENT CUISINE - Max Flint reports on the rise of ready meals and the impact it is having on our diet and our cooking skills. While convenient cuisine is a bonanza for the retail giants, what is it doing to the nation’s health?

FEEDING FRENZY: CLEVER FOOD - In the second of a two-part series on the new food revolution, Libby Potter investigates the boom in so-called ‘clever’ foods, designed to make us healthier and brainier, and which range from probiotics to cholesterol-reducing margarine, and milk, bread and eggs with added Omega 3. Though they’re all extremely profitable for the manufacturers, Potter wonders if they’re really worth the extra money and if they actually do work.
Series: Money Programme, The
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Year of release: 2006
Year of production: 2006
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 6/10/2006 and 13/10/2006 respectively
Subjects: Business studies; Catering
Keywords: food; food technology; nutrition; health foods

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