Thursday, 05:00

Food Unwrapped

Jimmy's off to Israel on the trail of an elusive fruit - the fresh date. If raisins are dried grapes and prunes are dried plums, then what exactly are dates? Kate heads to Belfast to meet a sausage maker whose sales suffered in the wake of the recent World Health Organisation report linking processed meat to cancer. In his otherwise ordinary back garden, Paul Barnett has an extraordinary tree with no fewer than 250 separate varieties of apple on it. By what alchemy is this possible? Matt's search for the answer takes him to Kent, where experts have perfected the science of growing apples, in the process transforming an industry worth billions of pounds.