|  In the USA, KFC serves steaming hot mashed potato with their finger-lickin' good chicken. If you eat at KFC restaurants on the eastern seaboard of the USA, the mashed potato you are served originates in Prince Edward Island and is made by AgraWest Foods in Souris, PEI.
Food Scientists at the Food Technology Centre worked with Jamie Trainor, plant manager at Agrawest Foods, to develop a high quality instant mashed potato mix made from dehydrated potato granules. A convenient, cost effective, and tasty product was prepared into a prototype batch and presented to KFC's purchasing team.
Recently, KFC has increased their volume and now AgraWest is supplying KFC with 200,000 kg of dehydrated mashed potato granules every month that are prepared in their restaurants by adding hot water. This product is a significant business for AgraWest which employs 100 people in Souris, PEI. | | | | Monday, July 07, 2008 | |
| |  An additional 70 MT (10,032.75 cwt fresh weight equivalent) of dehydrated potato flakes (dehy) was purchased by USDA, June 3rd for Africare, a non-governmental organization (NGO) working in Africa. The dehydrated potato flakes will be utilized in programming for severely malnourished children and people living with HIV/AIDS in Burkina Faso.
The purchase, a second for the Burkina Faso Africare program, is a direct result of a USPB training and pilot project in Burkina Faso in September 2006 that followed an October 2005 training mission in the US. Due to a number of factors, including application timelines, government budgets and approvals, purchasing schedules and shipping, it typically takes approximately one-two years for a commodity to be purchased by the US government from the time the application is submitted by the NGO.
To date, through the International Food Aid Initiative (IFAI), 8,620 MT of dehy, worth $7,891,835, has been purchased by the US government for use in food assistance programming. | | | | Friday, June 13, 2008 | USPB Industry update |
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