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Gregg Wallace visits an enormous factory in York to learn how millions of peppermint-flavoured bubbly chocolate bars are produced every year.
Gregg Wallace is in the UK鈥檚 city of chocolate, York, exploring how the Nestle factory makes more than eight million bars of chocolate every day. The bar he鈥檚 following is the one packed full of bubbles - the peppermint-flavoured Aero.
Meanwhile, Cherry Healey is in the Berkshire countryside, learning how a cocoa plant quarantine facility is preventing a worldwide chocolate shortage. And historian Ruth Goodman is serving up the bitter history of drinking chocolate.
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Fri 1 Mar 2024
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"Exactly the right amount of chocolate"
Duration: 01:48
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Gregg Wallace |
| Presenter | Cherry Healey |
| Presenter | Ruth Goodman |
| Line Producer | Lena Piper |
| Series Producer | Michael Rees |
| Executive Producer | Lucy Carter |
| Executive Producer | Sanjay Singhal |
| Director | Duncan Thompson |
| Production Company | Voltage TV |
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