Mid-series comments about "Jimmy's Food Factory"

Not long ago, I posted regarding my interest in the new British series, "Jimmy's Food Factory".

I have since seen a couple of episodes and I find it quite refreshing. In contrast to many other food-oriented documentaries, there is a noticeable absence of preaching and moralizing. Even though I am heavily skeptical of the health of industrial food products -- regardless of what the nutrition label says -- I still find the leading style used in many food documentaries to be distracting and tiresome. To be honest, I had expected preaching and hoped to be able to overlook it in the way I overlook most website banner advertising. Instead, I found a good attempt at presenting the facts, with very little (if any) browbeating thrown in.

For that reason alone, it is a refreshing addition to the genre. It simply presents the industrial processes used to produce many common industrial food products and leaves you to come to your own conclusions with very little leading, few ominous sound effects, and no heavy-handed implications.

Very good series, so far.