The BEST episodes of Keuringsdienst van waarde season 24

#1 - Nuts

Season 24 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/15/2024

They have come far: nuts. Long only for the connoiseur with drinks, now even dietitians love it. It is therefore not surprising that the nut industry is almost bursting at the seams. They are available raw, burned and roasted. With and without salt. In transparent containers or in bags without daylight. But look at the price tags and your head spins. The same nuts, costs vary wildly. Not to mention the miracle that happens when you throw them together. With a calculator in hand, de Keuringsdienst cracks the puzzle about what a nut costs.

#2 - Trout

Season 24 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/8/2024

Wild trout has been fished up and sold out, farmed trout is still widely available. Fresh, smoked or frozen; Trout is almost always raised in a fish farmer's pond. But how is that pond actually filled? De Keuringsdienst asks a simple question about farmed fish and discovers that fish can also be transsexual.

#3 - Smoked salmon

Season 24 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/25/2024

Sometimes it comes from the wild, most often it is farmed: smoked salmon fillet. Fish: Raised in captivity in Norway or Scotland, smoked at a smokehouse. But why are there at least two types of salmon slices in every supermarket? One expensive and one cheap? A farmed salmon is a farmed salmon, right? And smoking? De Keuringsdienst visits the fish farm and discovers that all salmon are the same, but one is just a little more than the other.

#4 - Rattan

Season 24 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/2/2024

Chairs, mirrors, lamps. Japandi, Bohemian or simply Scandi: no interior that takes itself seriously can do without: rattan. From lamps to baskets, tables to chairs. Always sustainable according to the label. But what is it actually, that rattan? De Keuringsdienst dives into the bush and sees how the tropics are being stripped bare for our living trends.

#5 - Halal chicken

Season 24 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/22/2024

For many it makes a big difference: how a chicken's neck is twisted. The supermarket even has a separate shelf for it: halal it says. Meat, piously picked for Muslims. But when is a chicken actually halal and when not? And why do all other chickens have at least one star from the Better Life quality mark, and the halal chicken only has to make do with halal? Or is that better life already ingrained in it? De Keuringsdienst van Waarde is full of questions about chicken with a quality mark but no one knows exactly what that means.

#6 - Tender meat

Season 24 - Episode 16 - Aired 9/23/2024

Give the carnivore something to choose from and chewing will lose out: it has to be tender. The magic word for supermarkets and butchers. Their steak, rib steak or bavette is said to be buttery soft. Some even provide a guarantee. Not tender, money back. But how can they promise that? De Keuringsdienst van Waarde sinks its teeth into tender meat and punctures it.

#7 - French bread

Season 24 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/30/2024

In the Netherlands bread is called 'brood'. In France they call it 'pain'. Yet 'pain' is also immensely popular here. Every day, many warm French loaves of bread are sold in our polders. Selling bread under the French flag appears to be bon ton. There is 'pain' boulogne and 'pain' bastille. 'Pain' triumph and 'pain' levain. De Keuringsdienst on when bread is 'pain' and when it is not.

#8 - Cinnamon

Season 24 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/7/2024

The sweet tooth cannot do without: cinnamon. From pastries to gingerbread. Breakfast cereal to gingerbread. Fortunately, there is a lot to choose from. There is cinnamon stick and ground cinnamon. Expensive and cheap. Sweet and bitter. And then some packages say something special: Ceylon. But what is actually the difference? De Keuringsdienst van Waarde goes on a voyage of discovery to Indonesia and learns everything about biting wood.

#9 - Satay

Season 24 - Episode 22 - Aired 11/4/2024

It is something the Dutch have learned from an early age: satay. Not on the map in any neighboring country, can be ordered here at any establishment. But ask what satay actually is and people are left speechless. Is it the stick, the sauce or the meat? Quite difficult that becomes even more complicated in the store. There is satay prawn crackers and satay salad. Satay nuts and satay balls. Apparently satay can do it all. Or not? De Keuringsdienst asks a very simple question about the essence of satay, travels to Indonesia, and receives hundreds of answers.

#10 - Vitamin B12

Season 24 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/28/2024

From fake minced meat to oat milk, it is written in cow letters on many products for the vegetarians among us: with vitamin B12. Important vitamin that humans cannot do without. Naturally hidden in meat or dairy, now artificially added. But what is it actually? The value inspection service asks a simple question about counterfeiting and discovers that even the cow cannot do without supplements.

#11 - Wild fruit

Season 24 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/18/2024

Those who want to go wild picking can leave their boots at home. Even on the neat shelves of the supermarkets there is plenty of it: wild fruit. From wild peaches to wild apricots. Wild berries to wild blackberries. But how wild is that wild really? De Keuringsdienst service wants to know, goes into the wilderness and picks wild fruits for the store.

#12 - Blue cheese

Season 24 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/21/2024

Mold is scary. Between the bathroom tiles, in the refrigerator or on the sandwich. It has to go, because it's dirty and dangerous. But put the mold in a cheese with an expensive name and suddenly we are more than happy to open our wallets. So blue cheese. Supermarkets and delicatessens are devastated. But where do all those fungi actually come from? De Keuringsdienst pokes its nose into the shadowy world behind fungi.

#13 - Flavored tea

Season 24 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/14/2024

Of all hot drinks, none is as numerous as tea. Even if the tea drinker were to choose a different flavor every day, he or she could live on the tea shelf for months. From earl gray to apple strawberry and from ginger lemon to caramel pear. But how do all those simple tea leaves get all those complex flavors? De Keuringsdienst discovers that you can do tricks with tea.

#14 - Burrata

Season 24 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/1/2024

Mozzarella is out. Burrata is the bomb. Also white cheese balls, also Italian, only with a buttery soft interior. From restaurant to sandwich shop, cheese shelf to kiosk: the containers of burrata are selling like hot cakes in the Netherlands. But de Keuringsdienst received a letter. A young couple had moved to Italy specifically because of their love for that cuisine. Once there, doubt set in. What turned out? There would be no burrata anywhere in their area. How is this possible? De Keuringsdienst van Waarde on Italian cheese that the Dutch like more than the Italian.

#15 - Kombucha

Season 24 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/22/2024

If you want to drink a cool, fresh drink, don't buy cola but buy kombucha. Come what? Kombucha, that is. Smooth bottles and cans with, yes, that is the question. The striking labels mention yeast and fermentation, tea and 'raw'. And many swear to be good for you too. A soft drink that does not claim to be a soft drink but has nevertheless conquered the soft drink shelf.

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Season 24 - Episode 26 - Aired 12/9/2024

#17 - Raw Ham

Season 24 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/15/2024

It is often separated, but we also like it raw: ham. Supermarkets have raw hams from many regions for sale. From Parma to Coburg, Black Forest to Spain. Almost identical at a glance, but with a high price. From thirteen to over fifty euros per kilo. How can it be, all pork raw, such a big difference in price? Value Inspection Service about the raw reality behind raw ham from the grocer.

#18 - Mouthwash

Season 24 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/29/2024

Brush, clean and floss your teeth well and your teeth will remain fresh and healthy. Or not? No, say the mouthwash sellers: for a really spotless mouth you have to use mouthwash. Good for eternally fresh breath and no more cavities, the bottles say. Rinse twice a day for minutes with: yes, what exactly? The Keuringsdienst puts on its best smile, dives into the mouthwash and discovers that appearances are sometimes expensive.

#19 - Olive oil

Season 24 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/2024

An olive, a press and presto: olive oil. Simple enough, you might say, but leave it to the Dutch grocery mentality to turn it into something extremely complex. There is mild olive oil and traditional olive oil. Classico and Extra Virgin. For cold, lukewarm and hot. Meat, fish and chicken. So many varieties that choosing is almost impossible. Because what is the difference? De Keuringsdienst van Waarde asks around in olive oil producing countries and raises eyebrows about the story that you cannot bake in virgin olive oil.

#20 - Honey

Season 24 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/12/2024

They come from the flowers and the bees: pots of honey. Simply available in abundance at every grocer. But de Keuringsdienst finds it strange that one scornful one costs four and a half euros per kilo and the other costs more than twenty. How is that possible? Bees are bees and flowers are flowers, right? They don't add anything else to it, do they?

#21 - Organic mussels

Season 24 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/19/2024

It is of course logical that in the organic store they only sell items that are labeled as organic. They may even sell boxes of mussels with a sticker. So organic. But how organic are organic mussels? Or how much not? A mussel is simply fished from the sea, right? De Keuringsdienst asks mussel men, who appear to call themselves mussel fishermen as well as mussel farmers, and discovers that all mussels are equal. Some just a little more than others.

#22 - Down

Season 24 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/26/2024

All the ducks were wonderfully warm in the ice-cold water: people looked at them and wanted that too. And so we took their down and put it in our coats and duvets. It turned out that was not being done animal-friendly for a long time. There were stories of live plucking and force-feeding of ducks and geese. But buy something with down now and you will receive a stack of promises. It says responsible. Fair and even animal-friendly. Do good, buy down! But how do they actually obtain responsible, animal-friendly down? De Keuringsdienst van Waarde dresses extra warmly and discovers that a chick is not actually a chick when it is made cold.

#23 - Gelatin

Season 24 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/4/2024

Puddings and sweets: as long as they stand, they are stiff from gelatin. And it is the worst kept secret of the food industry that gelatin is made from dead animals. Often pigs, sometimes cows. Difficult for vegetarians and people of faith. And because the customer is king, some producers claim to have partially removed the stuff from their food. But suddenly De Keuringsdienst sees gelatin in places where it had never been noticed before. From pesto to coconut bread. Chocolate mousse to custard lip. But why is one possible and the other not possible without gelatin? De Keuringsdienst van Waarde on dead animals in places where you don't expect them.

#24 - Pasta

Season 24 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/11/2024

It has now become practically Dutch: pasta. Many packages go through each person per week. But which one should you choose exactly? There is fresh and dried. In many shapes and sizes. With and without egg. Expensive and pressed through a bronze mold or dirt cheap and very slippery. Sometimes you cook them for a short time and then again for a very long time. And all supposedly really Italian. Different types of pasta, no one knows what it is. De Keuringsdienst about very simple dough that has been made far too complicated.

#25 - Hidden eggs

Season 24 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/18/2024

Buy an egg and you know where it was laid. The box says free range or even organic. There is a code on the egg that reveals the farm. But more than half of the eggs a person eats are hidden. In cookies and croquettes, in noodles and chocolates. They are everywhere, without revealing anything about their origin. No rooster crows about it. Except for de Keuringsdienst. Because what kind of eggs do food makers use in their products? And why aren't we allowed to know that?