Watch Mega Food

Mega Food is a fascinating documentary series from National Geographic that provides an inside look into the world of super-sized food production. The show takes viewers on a thrilling journey across the world to visit the largest, most advanced food factories to reveal what goes into making mega-scaled meals.

The series features six episodes, each exploring a different food industry and how it operates on a large scale. The first episode, "Gargantuan Sweets," takes a trip to the Western European candy powerhouse headquarters, which produces millions of sweets every year. From the production line to the packaging, Mega Food reveals the innovative and efficient methods that are used, making the candy industry one of the most productive.

The second episode, "Breakfast for Thousands," explores one of the world's biggest cereal factories in America, which can produce 7,000 metric tons of cereal in a day. Viewers follow the complete process of making cereal, from its beginning as raw ingredients to the intricate process of cutting, cooking, and packaging the final product.

The third episode, "South Asian Sensations," gives us an insight into the elaborate cooking techniques that are used in Indian cuisine. Viewers get to learn about the traditional methods of cooking and also how modern machines play a role in preparing food. The episode visits an Indian food factory that produces 200,000 meals a day, highlighting the balance between cooking culinary dishes with complex spices and the necessity of meeting the day-to-day demand.

The fourth episode called "Meat Mountain" takes us to the meat factories of America where Mega Food reveals steak processing and how factories have streamlined food processing. The episode highlights the safety issues and how it can be done without long-term damage to the environment.

The fifth episode, "Ginormous Gourmet," explores the life of luxury food on an industrial scale. Mega Food visits a French luxury food factory that produces over 10 million gourmet meals every year, and shares the factory's secrets of how to produce meticulous dishes with attention to detail.

The final episode, "Feast Galore," features catering on a massive scale for events such as weddings and sporting events. Mega Food shows how big stages and huge quantities of food are catered with as much delicacy and attention as a small restaurant. The episode takes viewers to perhaps the biggest catering company in the USA, producing more substantial volumes of food compared to many small towns in America.

Each episode is full of insightful facts that will leave viewers amazed at the level of technology and the human effort required to produce the meals, snacks and treats that we see on our supermarket shelves or purchasable from events nearly anywhere around the world. The series is perfect for anyone interested in cookery, food production or the progress of industry in the 21st century. Mega Food is a must-watch for those wanting to learn and be impressed by the greatness of the food industry at its largest scale.