Noticias sobre las Tendencias Alimentarias de Europa

The UK government has taken a significant step towards the possible banning of trans fatty acids by asking the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for its urgent advice.board meeting was held yesterday to seek the views of members of the food industry, consume...

Organic food has a higher nutritional value than ordinary produce, a study by Newcastle University has found. A team grew fruit, vegetables and reared cattle on adjacent organic and non-organic sites across Europe. They found up to 40% more antioxida...

From October, McDonald’s Hungary replaces its cooking oil to a newly developed mixture that is made of rapeseed and sunflower seed oil. The new oil has lower than 2% TFA content – reduced from the current maximum of 5%. And the rate of saturated fats ...

New varieties of potatoes bred at SCRI, including Mayan Gold and Inca Sun, have better flavour than their more common relatives, thanks to their umami. Although perhaps not widely known, umami, from the Japanese word for delicious, is one of the five...

Food and drink manufacturers pledged to considerably cut packaging and food waste by 2010, in a five point plan initiated by their trade body, the Food and Drink Federation (FDF).The industry want to reduce the 4.6 million tonnes of food packaging tha...

De West-Vlaamse producent van diepvriesgroenten Pinguin sluit één van zijn vijf fabrieken in Groot-Brittannië en richt zijn blik nu vooral op Oost-Europa. Dat zegt ceo Herwig Dejonghe. Pinguin sluit een fabriek in North Thoresby, één van de drie sites ...

At the last British Potato event in 2005, you probably did not give climate change a second thought. Since then your crop has borne floods, heavy rain events and temperature extremes rarely experienced in the UK. Climate change has now climbed to the ...

A probe into the culinary offerings of the UK's favourite fast food restaurants has found "shockingly high levels of salt in some family, individual, and children's meal options", which in many cases could result in kids receiving well over ...

Flavor firm Wild reports seeing a surge in interest for its diacetyl-free butter flavors, following rekindled concerns in recent months surrounding the safety of the ingredient.The group, which originally launched its flavors around four years ago, sai...

Hoewel aardappelen en afgeleide producten veruit de populairste maaltijdbegeleiders blijven, vindt slechts 9 procent van de Vlamingen verse aardappelen eten modern. In de hoop dat 'ouderwetse' imago zo snel mogelijk om te buigen, is de grootschalige 'P...

Does service with a scowl put you off at lunch? Will you eat more greens if you are surrounded by plants? Does romantic, pink lighting encourage you to linger over your fruit salad? A new research center -- dubbed the "restaurant of the future&q...

The food industry faces a government inquiry into its role in Britain’s surging obesity and heart disease rates with ministers considering a ban on trans fats as the first decisive step. The inquiry, ordered by Alan Johnson, the health secretary, fo...

EU states on Wednesday failed to reach agreement on whether to authorise a new genetically modified potato. Since July, the biotech industry has been awaiting an EU decision on an application by German chemicals giant BASF to approve the genetically mo...

The amount of wastage in potato crops being lifted this autumn is above last year, according to the British Potato Council. Most crops lifted so far had around 15-20% wastage, although up to 50% was reported in bad situations. Complete crop loss was s...

De Nederlandse universiteit van Wageningen wil een veldproef uitvoeren met genetisch gemanipuleerde aard­appelen die resistent zijn tegen phytophthora. De aardappelplaag is een jaarlijks weerkerend fenomeen bij akkerbouwers en kan aanzienlijke gewassch...

Op de Openbedrijvendag op 7 oktober, demonstreert BioEnergy in Lommel het proces van friet tot stroom, een project van de Group Machiels en Farm Frites. Van de 500.000 ton aardappelen die Farm Frites verwerkt tot frieten blijft jaarlijks zo'n 150.000...

Rural land prices gained further momentum during H1 2007, with prices increasing by 22.6% on a year earlier, compared to 18.1% in H2 2006. Demand continues to boom in both the agricultural and non-agricultural sector.Commercial farmers were still very...

HiFri  is de gedoodverfde winnaar van de Food Valley Award. Tijdens de publieksstemming stemden de bezoekers aan de Food Valley Conferentie massaal op het bedrijf door een balletje in de HiFri-zuil te stoppen. In de door HiFri ontwikkelde technologie...