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Biscuits

Inside the Factory

Documentary series. Gregg Wallace is in London at Europe's largest biscuit factory. He follows the production of chocolate digestives, from the arrival of 28 tonnes of flour right through to dispatch. Along the way, he discovers that the chocolate is added to the bottom not the top of the biscuits, meaning we are all eating them the wrong way up. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is on the trail of that chocolate. At the refinery in Manchester, she learns that it is transported in heated lorries kept at 50C to stop it solidifying on its way to the factory. She also discovers that this is the most expensive ingredient, at around Â£2,000 per tonne. Historian Ruth Goodman investigates the link between biscuits and digestion. She finds references in Samuel Pepys's diary to biscuits being a cure for flatulence and digestive discomfort and discovers that in Victorian times it was thought that biscuits could cure everything from typhoid to scarlet fever.

IMDb★ 7.8

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