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From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Making candy-covered almonds is a painstaking 10-hour process; the hole-free Bagelwich is boiled and baked at a rate of 15,000 buns per hour; half a million pounds of S’mores snack mix roll off a California assembly line every year; and, enough miso soup concentrate is produced annually to make over six billion cups of soup.

From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Discover the magic ingredient that keeps chocolate chips from melting away when baked; 1,000 kilograms of nuts are roasted every hour to keep up with the demand for this gourmet snack mix; these pickle slices are called bread and butter chips even though they contain neither; and, a trip to South America was the inspiration for this creamy mushroom soup.

From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: More than half a million squeezable yogurt tubes are produced every day; an Italian grandma ensures every batch of old-school tomato sauce is made with love; a mind-blowing 1,400 fruity chews are cut and wrapped per minute; and, these two entrepreneurs are betting that tofu’s protein-packed cousin tempeh will become number one.

From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: Rice-A-Roni’s massive assembly line produces six million boxes per week; this speedy Caesar salad kit takes just 30 seconds to prepare; it takes 100,000 Granny Smith apples to make a year’s worth of delectable Whole Foods apple pies; and, nearly 40 million of Glutino’s gluten-free multi-grain English muffins are baked every year.

From raw materials to finished products, Food Factory goes behind the scenes to reveal how our favourite foods are produced: After a century, Frank’s RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce still turns up the heat; seven million boxes of Shredded Wheat are produced every year; it takes art, culture, and science to create these coffee-chocolate bars with barista flair; and, from an obligatory nap to a robotic assembly line, this family-operated farm has perfected the art of hard-boiling eggs.

Food Factory has the scoop on red licorice candy, spicy Sriracha mayonnaise, flaky Turkish bourekas, and an irresistible cookie that combines dark chocolate with two wafer-thin cookies.

Food Factory cooks up millions of cherry chews, silos of ‘elbow’ macaroni, an all-season cranberry Christmas cheesecake, and a crispy exotic snack called chakri.

Food Factory has the inside scoop on honey, sprouted wheat bread, a checkerboard cookie, and irresistible chocolate-covered cherries.

Food Factory has the skinny on a rainbow of candies, ancient rice vinegar, a tangy Thai soup-in-a-bag, and gourmet caramels with a twist.

Food Factory has the goods on an old time candy bar, mountains of cannelloni, Vietnamese rice noodles, and diced butternut squash.

Food Factory reveals the secrets behind maple syrup, Almond Roca® butter toffee popcorn, Turkish Delight, and awesome apples that taste like grapes.

Catch up on all of Les Stroud’s adventures in season two, “Behind the Scenes”. In this episode Les highlights the most exciting segments of season two, showing us how he prepares himself both mentally and physically for surviving in such harsh climates. While learning the traditional skills of local experts, Les finds out what a deadly surprise looks like.

The California Gold Rush drew people from all over the world to the rugged Sierra Nevada’s. Now it’s a hiker’s dream – drawing people from all over the world. You can easily hike for miles and miles here. The problem is… it’s just as easy to get lost.

Cowboys… the iconic figure of the Wild West and the Colorado Rockies. These seven days finds Les surviving not alone, but with two horses. This gives survival a whole new twist.

In the land of the midnight sun, Survivorman heads in to 72°.46 N – the northern tip of Baffin Island. Living here is an exercise in survival. Getting to the base camp takes two days longer the expected due to weather. On-route the boats are surrounded by a pod of orca… killer whales. And Les soon notices what the killer whales are after… thousands of narwhale; something that most of the Inuit rarely see.

Les takes a group of NHL hockey players out to the wilderness to see if they have what it takes to survive.

Elias Theodorou is a TUF winner and a UFC veteran. He’s also an Amazing Race Canada alum, a medicinal marijuana activist and a Ring Boy for Invicta FC.

Continued investigation validates chilling paranormal claims.