FOOD UNWRAPPED: STORE CUPBOARD STAPLES

Channel 4, 8pm

Food Unwrapped celebrates the mighty store cupboard – that place we turn to in desperation when the fridge is empty and no one has bothered to go to Tesco.

The show is a look back at some favourite investigations into the foods we like to keep in easy reach.

Kate Quilton unearths the secret behind peanut butter’s spectacularly long shelf life, and solves the mysteries of Marmite. What is behind

its unique taste, and why exactly does it divide opinion?

Jimmy Doherty is in Sri Lanka to find out how – and why – lentils are sold split, not whole.

Matt Tebbutt witnesses some extraordinary anchovy fishing off the coast of Italy.

Jimmy enlists the help of old friend, chef Gennaro Contaldo, to unravel a rice riddle – what exactly is so special about risotto rice and why does it cost twice as much as normal rice?

And Kate investigates whether it’s OK to feed dog food to your cat, and vice versa

TASTER Jimmy investigates