
Kate Quilton couldn’t stop gagging after tasting some 50-year-old kangaroo tail canned soup – and we don’t blame her.
The 39-year-old star, who has hosted Food Unwrapped for over a decade, was conducting a programme on how to keep canned food fresh when she was requested to test the canned soup.
She paid a visit to scientist Dr Patrick Hickey at his mother Frances’ residence in Edinburgh in the episode, which aired on Friday.
They examined some of Frances’s ancient cans, including a 40-year-old can of potatoes, tinned hamburgers, and a can of kangaroo tail soup brought back from Australia in the early 1970s.
After Dr. Hickey determined that a comparable quantity of the soup was safe to consume, he asked Kate, “Would you care to sample a taste? It would be impolite not to.’
‘Go on then, I wish I had your excitement for it,’ she answered after laughing.
She was then seen carefully bringing a spoonful of soup to her mouth and sipping it before retching and moving away from the camera.

‘Bottom’s up, boys,’ Kate said, attempting to convince Dr Hickey and Frances to taste the soup.
When Kate noticed the son and his mother eating the soup, she said, ‘Well there you have it, 50 years in the can and totally delicious, even delightful for Frances.’
Frances replied, as she ate another spoonful, ‘I might have another tiny tad, mmm.’
Kate and the crew discover, as part of a consumer programme about food manufacturing, that properly packed canned food may last virtually eternally.
Food Unwrapped is also hosted by chef Matt Tebbutt, who has previously hosted BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, and farmer Jimmy Doherty, who has previously hosted BBC’s Jimmy’s Farm.
Food Unwrapped premieres on Channel 4 this Friday at 8 p.m.