The Food Detectives
Singaporean television series
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The Food Detectives (known as The Food Files outside Singapore) is a Singaporean television documentary series produced by ActiveTV for Mediacorp's Channel 5 and presented by Nikki Muller. The series fan for three seasons from 2013 to 2016 and was followed by a spin-off, The Food Detectives vs. Diabetes in 2017.
The series is distributed worldwide by TVF International, a British company, and is also based on a similar format distributed by them, the New Zealand series What's Really In Our Food?.[1]
Premise
The series tackled myths and facts related to food. The series featured food experts who debunked several myths. The series is presented in an easy-to-understand manner.[2]
The programme was lauded by the Media Development Authority's 2014 report on improvements of the production quality of programming with PSB credentials.[3]
Production
Distribution
British distributor TVF International picked up the rights to the show outside Singapore. In 2014, the first two seasons were sold to Nat Geo People Asia, TVBI in some Asia-Pacific territories, Metro Channel in the Philippines, Stream TV in Russia, Ukraine and CIS countries and Fokus TV in Poland.[6] In Poland, the series started airing on 2 December 2014, as Detektyw kulinarny.[7]
The series started airing in South Africa on eReality on 7 April 2018.[8]