AI in the food chain
The Food Chain
BBC
4.7 • 545 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
How is artificial intelligence reshaping the global food industry? Rumella Dasgupta explores how AI is helping chefs experiment with new recipes, reducing food waste in factories and streamlining supply chains.
She speaks to Tamsin Deasey Weinsten, a though leader on the AI industry, to discover the parts of the food supply chain that AI is affecting the most.
In the kitchen, chef Matan Zakan tells us how he uses AI chatbots to assist him with recipes and food orders.
AI is also revealing problems that have long been overlooked. We speak to Dini McGrath, co founder of ZEST, a company that has developed an AI programme to address food waste.
And the CEO of Chef Robotics, Rajat Bhageria, welcomes us to meet his AI enabled robots, designed to help labour shortage problems in the food industry.
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| 0:32.4 | From factory floors to supermarket shelves, artificial intelligence is quietly reshaping the global food industry. |
| 0:39.9 | So from farm to fork, everything, every aspect of the process is automated, AI-driven, |
| 0:46.2 | and we just don't know about it. |
| 0:47.9 | It's streamlining supply chains, tackling waste, and even helping chefs in the kitchen. |
| 0:54.1 | I'm most of the time going to the AI with ideas of one ingredient. |
| 1:00.6 | I can ask him, can you help me to find a good idea? |
| 1:05.1 | On this episode of the food chain with me, Ramella Dazgupta, |
| 1:09.0 | how is the food industry being re-engineered by AI? |
| 1:13.2 | Our robots are collaborative. If you touch it, basically the robot will stop, right? |
| 1:16.9 | So we actually don't need any guarding, and basically the robot and humans can work side |
| 1:20.8 | by side to do a production. We look at the promises, the pitfalls, and hear from the people |
| 1:26.3 | behind the tech. |
| 1:28.1 | We can go to Lob table five, please. |
| 1:30.6 | I'm thinking here about a good combination between asparagus, |
| 1:35.5 | buttermilk and maybe some keper sleeve. |
| 1:39.2 | I was thinking about working this course with some sweetbread, |
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