The Fridge Light
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Join top food writer Chris Nuttall-Smith for an obsessive, fascinating journey through the hidden stories of the things we eat. Each episode chows down on one food phenomenon, revealing the unexpected cultural ingredients. Part science, part business, part psychology — always fresh and delicious.

Catch of the Day

How one of the strangest, and frankly blandest-tasting animals you’ll ever encounter, might just be exactly the fish the planet needs.
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Blank Slate

Tofu: vegetarian superfood or toxin-ridden poison? (Spoiler alert: it's neither!)
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Chew Chew

The sticky story of how gum conquered our planet — and why today it’s fighting just to survive.
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Gutsy

Prebiotic. Probiotic. These labels are popping up on all sorts of food products, but do they actually help your intestines do their thing?
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Snack Time

Can the Fridge Light team choose, once and for all, the greatest snack of all time? We find out at our first ever live show, recorded at the Hot Docs ...
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Green Gold

Lettuce: the invisible forces that turned rabbit food into the world’s first seasonless produce.
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So Saucy

Sauce: it’s identity in a bottle, with a side order of culture and commerce.
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The Rest of the Pig

From bacon to guanciale, North Americans love their pork. But even with today’s nose-to-tail approach to eating, there is still plenty left over after...
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