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Many of our favorite foods – French fries, bread, and potato chips come immediately to mind – contain a special, essential ingredient: salt. Also known as sodium chloride, this abundant mineral not only acts as a flavor enhancer and preservative, it p...

Floods and market conditions have not made for an easy year at Archer Daniels Midland, but a 61 per cent slump in Q4 profits is not as grave as it seems since last years figures were propped up by one-off costs. Patricia Woertz, ADM chairman and CEO ...

Wendy's International, Inc., the third largest U.S. hamburger chain, said Tuesday after the markets closed that second quarter earnings fell from last year, hurt by declining sales and rising commodity costs as well as restructuring charges and expense...

ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, the largest potato company in North America with annual sales exceeding $2 billion, and Ochoa Foods, a privately owned potato processing company based in Boise, Idaho, announced today that they have entered into a new joint ...

City tax incentives are on the way for Kettle Creations, a company planning to open a $25 million food manufacturing facility in Gateway Commerce industrial park in Lima, Ohio.Kettle Creations, a new company, will manufacture 50 million pounds of mashe...

Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group. Nearly every possible combinatio...

Higher prices and shorter lengths for food contracts are forcing some restaurants to reconsider locking in prices for ingredients and instead buy chicken, beef and other goods on the spot market, exposing themselves to volatile costs. Major food suppli...

The only known consumer to have developed the health condition known as "popcorn lung"is suing the stores that sold him his microwave popcorn, saying that they failed to warn him that he could become ill from using the product as intended.Way...

The July issue of Better Homes and Gardens introduced Frito-Lay’s new advertorial (an advertisement that looks like editorial content). Titled “Keeping up like the Joneses,” it features a photo of an attractive mother and her three children bringing g...

P.E.I. farmers who sell potatoes for processing to McCain Foods voted in favour of a new contract at a meeting Thursday night. Unlike those growing for Cavendish Farms, who rejected three contracts before signing, the McCain growers accepted the first...

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today settled lawsuits against Heinz, Frito-Lay, Kettle Foods and Lance Inc. after the companies agreed to slash levels of the cancer-causing chemical acrylamide in their potato chips and french fries. “T...

Food manufacturers will have to start paying more for potatoes in the US to maintain future supplies, according to industry experts. Potato prices will have to increase due to high production costs or US potato growers will go out of business, Alvin ...

Pennsylvania's first and only vodka distillery sits unassumingly inside one of the former Glenshaw Glass buildings along Route 8 in Shaler. Pennsylvania Pure Distilleries, the brainchild of Prentiss Orr and Barry Young, is just about ready to release...

Food processor Kettle Creations LLC is considering putting a mashed-potato plant in the Gateway Commerce Industrial Park here.It plans to a $21 million factory to make refrigerated mashed potatoes for sale in stores and use in restaurants. The operati...

Allan Parker, President &CEO, World Potato Congress Inc. today announced the appointment of Albert T. Wada as a member of the Board of Directors. Mr. Wada is the Chairman and CEO of Wada Farms Inc., an irrigated farming enterprise in eastern Idaho ...

Comer en un restaurante a la carta o elegir uno donde predomine la rapidez del servicio conlleva, además de fijarse en el valor nutricional, mirar al bolsillo. Cada vez están siendo más los residentes que se inclinan por esta segunda opción. Los esta...

Food Network production crews will be in Richland today at ConAgra Lamb Weston's potato plant shooting an episode about french fries. The episode is for the new Food Network series How'd That Get On My Plate? said Marti DeMoss, a ConAgra spokeswoman....

Company officials for the Wild River Foods potato processing plant, which was gutted by fire on July 1, have not decided if they will rebuild, according to a statement issued Monday. "It has been almost 30 days since the fire consumed our plant ...