Airdate: Michael Mosley’s Secrets of Your Food

He’s been a regular on SBS but next week Michael Mosley has a new series on ABC, Secrets of Your Food (because you can never have too much food in primetime).

He is joined by James Wong for this 3 part series.

From the makers of Human Universe and 9 Months That Made You, comes the definitive guide to the food on your plate. Seen at a microscopic level, your food resembles a vast range of strange and beautiful landscapes, which transform in mouth-watering ways as you cook.

Michael Mosley and James Wong reveal the delicious physics, chemistry and biology hidden inside our food. They travel the world in a culinary adventure to search for the origins of our favourite foods and using specialist photography and CGI, they take us on a journey inside the most sumptuous food, right down to the molecular level.

This landmark series uncovers a secret world of exquisite chemical reactions. Each fizz and tickle of the tongue is captured so clearly you can almost taste it. This is the untold story of your next mouthful, where delicious is in the detail.

In the opening episode, We Are What We Eat, they explore how this chemistry fuels and builds our bodies. Michael begins by trying the first meal most of us enjoyed, human breast milk, which contains everything a baby needs – fats, carbs, vitamins and minerals. As we grow, we continue to seek the same chemistry in our diet but as Michael and James discover, from a wide variety of scrumptious fare.

In San Francisco, they unravel why sourdough bread is so good for us, in the Philippines, they learn how a river weed – rice – has become a comforting staple food, and in Bulgaria, they discover why letting your mushrooms sunbathe may help you get a calcium boost from your dairy food.

8.30pm Tuesday 11 April on ABC.