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Food Detectives

Liquid Smoke

Mon, Feb 16, 2009
Host Ted Allen recruits identical twins for an experiment to find out if drinking lots of water really makes your skin look better. The Food Detectives team also creates liquid smoke in the lab, and discovers the bizarre secret ingredients in natural food coloring.
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Smells Delicious
In this episode, Host Ted Allen subjects the food techs to a taste test to find out how much your sense of taste relies on smell. Will they be able to tell apple from potato without the help of their eyes and nose? And, you might not think of fried food as healthy, but how fattening is it? And what is the healthiest oil to fry with? Finally, is it really true that wood cutting boards harbor more bacteria than their plastic counterparts? Well cut to the truth, on Food Detectives.
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Liquid Nitrogen Cocktails
Ted Allen invites Richard Blaise to the Food Lab to demonstrate how to make some really cool cocktails, using a tank of liquid nitrogen. And, Dr. Brian Wansink teams up with the food detectives to find out how much of taste is influenced by elegant decor or flowery menu descriptions. Finally, have you ever heard that drinking ice water can burn calories? Find out if that theory holds water, this week on Food Detectives.
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