Chris van Tulleken – The Truth About Food: 03: The Big Food Hack | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Healthy Eating | The Truth About...

Documentary in which Fiona Phillips teams up with leading scientists to investigate how people can eat and drink themselves to good health.

S02E04: The Stomach and Intestines | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Dr Alice Roberts peers inside her own stomach by swallowing a tiny camera, then uses dissection and so...

Guts: The Strange and Wonderful World of the Human Stomach

Michael Mosley lays bare the mysteries of the digestive system and reveals a complexity and intelligence in the hu...

Obesity | The Truth About...

Chris Bavin looks at the latest scientific research on obesity and reveals how small lifestyle changes can help people maximize their chances of...

Enzymes and Digestion | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Animated shorts to support students preparing for assessments in GCSE Additional Science.

How enzymes work | GCSE Bitesize Revision

Spec references J247: B1.2g J250: B1.2d. How enzymes break down substrates into products, lock and key model, denaturing of protei...

Sugar | The Truth About...

Journalist Fiona Phillips is on a mission to find out the truth behind the recent headlines on sugar.

Anatomy of a stomach | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice dissects a pigs stomach to show how a human one works. She also tests her own stomach acid.

Bowel cancer and 'transit time' | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice does a test with Les eating sweetcorn to see how long it takes for them to digest the food until ex...

Chris van Tulleken - The Truth About Food: 02: How Food Makes Us | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Using some explosive experiments, Dr Chris van Tulleken reveals how o...

Digestion | Curriculum Bites

Schools science programme where topics in the double science curriculum are broken down into small chunks.

Digestive powers | Guts: The Strange and Wonderful World of the Human Stomach

The digestive powers of the gastric juices within the human stomach are tested.

Stomach and intestines | Dr Alice Roberts: Don't Die Young

Alice shares some facts about the stomach and intestines.

The small intestine | Guts: The Strange and Wonderful World of the Human Stomach

A camera travels through the digestive system and shows the frenzy of digestion within the s...

Carbs | The Truth About...

Dr Xand van Tulleken investigates whether claims about negative effects of carbohydrates on health are true and explores healthier ways to consume...

Chris van Tulleken - The Truth About Food: 01: From Taste Buds to Toilet | Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dr Chris van Tulleken is joined by leading experts, including...

Enzyme power and food as fuel | Bitesize Science

Enzymes are biological catalysts which help us to get the energy we need from food to survive.

How food and oxygen combine to provide energy to work the body | Inside the Human Body

Using state-of-the-art graphics, Michael Mosley explains what happens to food inside o...

Journey through guts | Dara O'Briain's Science Club

A camera travels through the digestive system.

Meat | The Truth About...

Chris Bavin joins a team of scientists as they follow 40 volunteers on a groundbreaking study to find out exactly how much meat is good for people.