The Food Innovators
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dan Saladino explore three big ideas that are set to influence the future of food and farming: the reinvention of wheat, supplies of wild meat into hospital kitchens and 'taste education' for children.
Each one is a contender in this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards, in the innovation category. Dan heads into a forest to see how the cull of a growing deer population is resulting in better hospital food. He visits a team of crop scientists who are taking wheat back in time and through its evolutionary history to create greater diversity and resilience. And inside a classroom he hears how the charity TasteEd is transforming the relationship children have with food and flavours.
Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.
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| 0:03.8 | podcast I work on. I'm Dan Clark and I commissioned factual podcasts at the BBC. |
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| 0:44.5 | Consider this fact. |
| 0:50.3 | You and I wouldn't be alive today if an extremely rare biological event hadn't taken place 100,000 years ago, |
| 0:58.8 | a time when our ancestors were living their hunter-gatherer lives and this rare |
| 1:05.2 | biological event involved a weed. This very odd looking plant here, they almost look like little tubular bits of |
| 1:16.5 | Legos stuck on top of each other. This is a wild grass from around the |
| 1:21.2 | Caspian Sea is its origin called Wild Goatgrass, |
| 1:24.7 | 80 Lops Towshi. |
| 1:26.3 | Crop scientist Phil Howell has spread bunches of the rugged, weedy wild looking plant across a table inside the Cambridge Research Center |
| 1:36.1 | Naiab, the National Institute for Agricultural Botany. Goatgrass is an ancestor of wheat, the plant that provides the world today |
| 1:47.2 | with most of its calories. It's like an ear of wheat that's been wrapped up tightly. |
| 1:53.3 | Yeah, yeah, and a third of the chromosomes in modern wheat |
| 1:58.3 | come from this relative. |
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