The Best Food Science Documentaries

Food & Drink - 14 free documentaries about food science.

Start with Cooking With Foil: Is It Safe? We Test Lasagna, Salmon, & Others (22 min, CNA Insider), then Gummie Candy, Croissants, Sandwich Cookies, & More Snacks (50 min, Science Channel). All 14 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on food science is Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat.

• Cooking With Foil: Is It Safe? We Test Lasagna, Salmon, & Others | Talking Point (22 min, CNA Insider)
• Gummie Candy, Croissants, Sandwich Cookies, & More Snacks | How It's Made (50 min, Science Channel)
• Deep-Fried Food: How Many Times Can We Reuse Our Cooking Oil? | Talking Point (23 min, CNA Insider)
• How Ice Cream Cones, Waffles, Peanut Butter & More Are Made | How It's Made (35 min, Science Channel)
• Is Organic Really Better? Healthy Food or Trendy Scam? (8 min, Kurzgesagt)
• How Potato Chips, Pretzels, & Chocolate Chip Cookies Are Made! | How It’s Made (25 min, Science Channel)
• Breakfast Time! How All Your Favorites Are Made! | How It's Made (66 min, Science Channel)
• How Jelly Beans, Jawbreakers, and More Halloween Treats Are Made! | How It’s Made (65 min, Science Channel)
• Making margarine from olive oil (21 min, NileRed)
• Feeding Bill Gates a Fake Burger (to save the world) (17 min, Mark Rober)
• How clean meat will change the food industry - Docu (30 min, VPRO Documentary)
• Superfoods and the environment - Avocados and blueberries from South America (42 min, DW Documentary)
• Gut Health: What Is Microbiome & What To Eat To Boost Our Moods? | On The Pulse (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Michael Pollan on the Perfect Food (81 min, The School of Life)

Top-Rated Books About Food Science

1. Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
2. On Food and Cooking by Harold McGee (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
3. The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt (5/5) - View on Amazon
4. Gulp by Mary Roach (3.5/5) - View on Amazon
5. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (4/5) - View on Amazon
6. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (4.2/5) - View on Amazon
7. Food science by Norman N. Potter - View on Amazon
8. Food Science And Nutrition by Sunetra Roday - View on Amazon