Noticias sobre las Tendencias Alimentarias de Los Estados Unidos

The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) is pleased to announce that the 2012 AFFI Frozen Food Convention in San Diego has matched the convention's all-time attendance record set two years ago. More than 1,400 members of the frozen food industry ga...

Denise Austin, the Idaho Potato Commission’s (IPC) long-time spokesperson, celebrated American Heart Month on behalf of the IPC with two major initiatives: a 35-city satellite media tour (SMT) and an online re-release of the IPC's national television c...

Nearly all Americans consume much more sodium than they should, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of the sodium comes from common restaurant or grocery store items.

The European Union and the United States announced today that beginning June 1, 2012, organic products certified in Europe or in the United States may be sold as organic in either region.

The U.S, potato industry enjoyed a lot of success in 2011, including rising consumption and a big win on a controversial proposal that would have limited spuds in school cafeterias, potato boosters say.

Michigan - Kellogg Company anunció ayer un acuerdo para adquirir la marca Pringles, de Procter &Gamble (P&G), por $2,695 millones. Pringles es denominada la marca número uno a nivel mundial en papas crujientes dentro del segmento de meriendas ...

Thanks to investigations by scientists-turned-detectives with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other agencies, potato growers in the western United States and abroad now know the identities of the pathogen-insect duo responsible for outbre...

The Procter &Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today announced an agreement to divest its Snacks business to The Kellogg Company in a $2.7 billion all-cash transaction. The companies expect to complete the deal in summer of 2012. Final timing will be depend...

Diamond Foods, Inc. today announced that The Procter &Gamble Company and Diamond have mutually agreed to terminate Diamond's proposed acquisition of the Pringles business and have released each other from all liabilities related to the proposed acq...

With Kellogg’s deal to acquire Procter &Gamble’s Pringles brand for $2.695 billion in cash, Diamond Foods is left with nothing. Proctor &Gamble’s announcement of the deal was accompanied by a terse statement that the consumer products company h...

Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Procter &Gamble's Pringles® business ("Pringles") for $2.695 billion. Pringles is an excellent strategic fit for Kellogg Company. It significantly ...

UW-Madison scientists collaborate with the Wisconsin Potato &Vegetable Growers Association in a continual effort to improve the state's chipping potatoes.

A potato that's purple on the outside and yellow on the inside is one of four new varieties coming to Montana to help attract new markets for the state's $40 million seed potato industry, says Nina Zidack, director of the Montana State University Potato Lab.

Reductions in restaurants’ use of trans fats may have played a role in declining levels of the fats in the blood of white American adults between 2000 and 2009, a Centers for Disease Control study found Wednesday. The level of trans fats in those who ...

Procter &Gamble Co. has decided it will seek to terminate its sale of the Pringles snack business to Diamond Foods Inc., said three people with knowledge of the situation, following the accounting probe that ousted Diamond’s chief executive officer...

The three Pacific Northwest Potato Commissions, the Idaho Potato Commission (IPC), the Oregon Potato Commission (OPC) and the Washington State Potato Commission (WSPC) have entered into an agreement to hire a Pacific Northwest Potato Regional Research ...

The Top Producer Seminar annually features the Top Producer of the Year award. This year, Gregg Halverson of Black Gold Farms, a 20,000-acre potato operation based in Grand Forks, North Dakota, won the prestigious honor. Other outstanding producers who...

A year after pledging to develop a front-of-pack label that would give its customers an easier way to identify healthier food, Walmart, the largest food retailer in the United States, unveiled the “Great For You” icon at an event today in Washington, D...