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A look at some of the largest factories in Britain.

Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey hit factory floors across Britain for a snoop around their supersized production lines. What are the secrets behind our supermarket staples?

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Cherry Healey

Ruth Goodman

Gavin Ahern

Nicola Lafferty

Lucy Carter

Inside the Factory: Series 6: Cider

Cider

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Gregg Wallace visits the biggest cider factory in the world.

Gregg Wallace visits the world’s biggest cider factory, which produces more than 350 million litres each year.

Gregg Wallace visits the biggest cider factory in the world, which produces more than 350 million litres each year. The scale of production blows his mind as at each turn he’s confronted with huge machinery and incredible processes. He visits Birchley Farm in Herefordshire, at the heart of cider country, before heading to the mill at Ledbury to help sort the apples. At the factory itself, he learns about the fermentation process and the critical role of yeast, before being shown the vast scale of the bottling process, which sees 833 bottles cleaned and filled every minute.

Meanwhile, Cherry Healey explores how the factory is creating new orchards of a sweet apple variety called Scrumptious through the ancient technique of grafting, as well as revealing how a by-product from the brewing industry, CO2, is vital in the manufacture of fire extinguishers. 

Historian Ruth Goodman traces a Victorian apple-breeding boom with Dr Annie Gray, recreating one of Queen Victoria’s favourite baked apple desserts. And she learns how it was British scientists and cider makers - not French champagne makers - who were the first to put fizz in a bottle.

Inside the Factory: Series 6

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In the sixth series, Gregg Wallace visits such places as the world’s biggest cider producer, a factory sewing 1.5 million socks each year and another churning out a million pots of yogurt every day.

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