Noticias sobre las Papas Fritas y Especialidades de Papa de Las Américas

What can you do with mashed potatoes? Just about anything! That is the message Asia’s food service operators took home from seminars recently conducted by the United States Potato Board (USPB) international marketing program. The mashed potato seminar...

Gerentes y representantes de McCain, junto al intendente de Balcarce, José Echeverría;productores y empresarios rurales del sudeste bonaerense compartieron anoche una cena en el Hermitage Hotel. Con rindes promedio de 50 toneladas por hectárea, la cos...

In the United States, McDonald’s will begin rolling out a new Happy Meal in September 2011, with the goal of having them available in all 14,000 restaurants during Q1 2012.

This year, the sweet potato is migrating away from its place at the Thanksgiving table and making its way to everyday dinner tables thanks to companies like Alexia Foods. Known for its line of all-natural, gourmet-inspired frozen side dishes, breads ...

No charges will be laid against Cavendish Farms in connection with an industrial fryer accident that left an employee with second and third degree burns. The Occupational Health and Safety Division of the Workers Compensation Board has wrapped up its ...

The J. R. Simplot Company's Plant Sciences business announces Innate™ Technology, the all-native biotechnology platform for improving crops, leading to new, better and healthier foods.

Cavendish Farms has made changes to its potato frying equipment after a worker was badly burned there a few weeks ago. The employee suffered second and third-degree burns after being doused in hot grease while draining the oil from the fryer. He was ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes Dionisio Arturo Pèrez-Jàcome Friscione joined July 6 in Mexico City to sign agreements resolving the dispute over long-haul, cross-border trucking services between ...

The United States Potato Board believes a study released in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine perpetuates unfortunate myths and misconceptions about the potato.

In a series of three separate studies looking at how changes in multiple dietary and other lifestyle factors relate to long-term weight gain, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers found that modest changes in specific foods and beverages, physical activity, TV-watching, and sleep duration were strongly linked with long-term weight gain.

Infra-red heating and blanching, meeting today's food safety regulatory demands, innovative sorting solutions, enzymes against acrylamide and working out the real cost of ownership kept delegates busy at the final day of the 2011 International Potato Processing and Storage Convention in Denver, Colorado.

In the United States, the 13 major potato States held 35.5 million cwt of potatoes in storage June 1, 2011, down 36 percent from a year ago.

French fries and potatoes are not evil but they have been demonized. What will it take to get the buying consumer to realize that a potato is a very simple, healthy and wholesome food and not the primary culprit in rampant obesity?

The Board of Directors of McCain Foods Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Dirk Van de Put as President and CEO and a Director of the Company, succeeding Dale Morrison, effective July 1, 2011.

H.J. Heinz Co., the world’s biggest ketchup maker, raised its dividend and profit forecast as it plans to slash as many as 1,000 jobs worldwide.

La gerente de Marketing de la cadena KCF, Patricia Gamboa, afirmó que en Perú no existe una empresa proveedora de papas para freír de las características que requieren las compañías de comida rápida, por lo que estas últimas están obligadas a importar ...

The 13 major potato States held 65.7 million cwt of potatoes in storage May 1, 2011, down 27 percent from a year ago.

The employees of McCain Foods Limited were deeply saddened to learn of the death yesterday of our co-founder and friend, G. Wallace F. McCain.