The BEST episodes of Keuringsdienst van waarde season 26
Every episode of Keuringsdienst van waarde season 26, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Keuringsdienst van waarde season 26!
"De Keuringsdienst van Waarde" is a consumer television program. The program tries to give insight in the production of food and other consumer products and tries to show where things go wrong or are different from what you might expect. By asking simple questions to aid lines of producers, as naive but persisting consumer, they get sometimes hilarious and/or revealing answers.
#1 - Laundry detergent strips
Season 26 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/15/2025
Small loads, big loads, laundry strips: put them in the washing machine and everything is supposed to come out sparkling clean. Liquid or powder detergent is passé; flat sheets of soap are the new miracle product. The detergent market is being flooded with them. And the promises are enormous. Laundry strips are not only good for your underwear, but even better for Mother Earth. Plastic-free washing, reads one box in big letters. Savior of the world’s oceans, proclaims another. Thanks to laundry strips, you could wash with a clear conscience until the cows come home. But is that really true? Keuringsdienst van Waarde strips the laundry strip down to its core and, unfortunately, has to air some dirty laundry.
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#2 - Cheese fondue
Season 26 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/9/2026
Every cheesehead warms up to it in the dead of winter: cheese fondue. Melted cheese over a tealight for dinner. Designed for dipping all sorts of other foods. Invented in Switzerland. But what kind of cheese are you actually stirring? The Keuringsdienst bought cheese for melting and found that fresh cheese is over four times more expensive than fondue cheese from a pouch. And this despite the fact that practically every package actually mentions "Swiss cheese." The Keuringsdienst pokes through pots of cheese fondue from pouches and discovers that "Swiss" is a broad term.
#3 - Meat with protein
Season 26 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/24/2025
Whether it's chicken, cow, or pork: eating animals means eating protein. But the Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority checked the ingredients and spotted something strange: animal protein, added to the meat. Chicken contains extra chicken protein, beef contains extra beef protein. And pork? Exactly: extra pork protein. Why? And where does it come from? It turns out to be a blood-curdling story.
#4 - Flemish fries
Season 26 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/1/2025
In the Netherlands, many people only call fries "fries" if they're preceded by "Flemish." The freezer and fresh food sections are full of them: often thick slices of potato, sometimes with the skin, sometimes without. But what makes fries "Flemish"? And why isn't there a Walloon or Brussels variety? The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority visits Belgium and is called "crazy."
#5 - Pistachio
Season 26 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/22/2025
The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (Keuringsdienst van Waarde) is celebrating five hundred letters with a cake. Not a boring whipped cream schnitte, but one that's bright green and flaunts pistachio. Because if you want to say hip hooray these days, you buy pistachio. Once a simple treat for those who wanted something to do at drinks or in front of the TV. Now it's used everywhere and everywhere. There's pistachio cream and pistachio chocolate. Pistachio cake and pistachio pastries. Each one greener than the last. But where does all that pistachio come from? The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority is making a celebratory episode about pistachios and stumbles upon a fake.
#6 - Sea bass
Season 26 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/2/2026
By far most fish come from the sea, but only a few actually use the sea as part of their name: sea bass is one of them. A robust, impressive fish. Sometimes served as a fillet, often sold as the catch of the day. The only question is: which sea does sea bass actually come from? The North Sea? The Mediterranean? Or perhaps the South Pacific? Keuringsdienst van Waarde heads out to sea, fishes for the answer, and discovers that with sea bass you almost never know exactly what you’ve caught.
#7 - Merino wool
Season 26 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/3/2025
Winter is just around the corner. Time to bring out the wool. And if you believe the retailers, there’s one type of wool that will truly keep you warm: merino. Exceptionally soft wool, from exceptionally generous sheep. But on quite a few merino garments, there’s an extra label: *mulesing-free*. What does that mean? The **Keuringsdienst** asks a simple question about shear wool and discovers that humans have made life rather difficult for some sheep.
#8 - Stir-fry vegetables
Season 26 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/10/2025
When you fry vegetables, you stir-fry. But when you stir-fry, you wok. Stir-frying came over from Asia: frying in piping hot, hollow, and convex pans. The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (Keuringsdienst) stood in front of the refrigerated section and couldn't figure it out. There are plastic bags of pre-cut stir-fry vegetables and plastic bags of pre-cut stir-fry vegetables, and almost every country has its own mix – from Asia to Italy, and from Mexico to France. But how do you stir-fry the French way? The Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority searches for woks and returns with a new stove.
#9 - Salmon sperm
Season 26 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/8/2025
Inner beauty has long since gone out of fashion. Tight and taut is the mantra. And we are willing to pay more and more for it. At the beauty salon, one item has practically become a standard on the menu: salmon sperm. Supposedly the pinnacle of anti-wrinkle technology. From Kim Kardashian to Patty Brard, every beauty these days has their skin smeared with and injected full of salmon semen. It makes your jaw drop. But where does it come from? Keuringsdienst van Waarde takes a deep dive into salmon sperm and uncovers a trade that is swimming in money.
#10 - Air purifier
Season 26 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/16/2026
In the past, the enemy came from outside, but today it's right there on your couch: indoor air. Full of germs, particulate matter, and other dangers. But don't panic, breathe easy: thankfully, there are air purifiers available. Plastic boxes with a plug. Packed with promises about everything they remove from the air. One boasts 99.5 percent filtration, another 99.7 percent. But how do they actually do it? And so accurately! The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (Keuringsdienst van Waarde) takes a fresh look at air purifiers and discovers that they're hot air.
#11 - Bluefin tuna
Season 26 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/23/2026
When you think of sushi, you think of bluefin tuna. The Japanese are thrilled with its fatty, melt-in-the-mouth meat. Trendy places even throw parties for it. Tuna parties, where a whole tuna is brought in and sliced amidst loud cheers. But what makes this tuna so exceptionally fatty? It's about the catching of wild tuna, which is shipped thousands of kilometers in a net to tuna farms, where it's fattened up.