Chips en Snacks

In its 2008 Industry Forecast, the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Wednesday pointed to the snack industry to post the highest sales increase in 2008 with an expected 3.2 percent real sales increase in the upcoming year. The quick-service segmen...

Kettle Foods is giving potato chips, America’s number one salty snack, a makeover with new 100-calorie bags of its award-winning Kettle™ brand Bakes Lightly Salted Potato Chips. Named “Best Chips” in Health Magazine’s May 2006 Best New Foods for Busy...

I had heard of chocolate coverered potato chips and chocolate covered pretzels, but I'd never seen a picture until I received this image in a newsletter of Ballreich's. Sure looks tempting! Unfortunately they only ship to the US.    I heard back from ...

El gobierno chino detuvo la importación de papas fritas de la firma multinacional Procter &Gamble luego de detectar una sustancia prohibida en las mismas.

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) again has recertified Beloit, Wis.-based Frito-Lay Inc. as a "Star"site in its prestigious Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP)."Frito-Lay has sustained a...

Pringles has always been one of the UK's most popular snacks but 2007 has been an even better than usual year. Not only has the last 12 months seen the exciting launch of new Pringles Rice Infusions, but the core range has gone from strength to strengt...

Frito-Lay announced on Monday a voluntary recall of 41 cases of mispackaged potato chips that could pose a risk to people with milk allergies.

Don't know how many of you remember this, but Jays potato chips used to be sold in these giant, white, cardboard boxes with a huge blue circle in the front, a huge white "J"in the circle, and the words "can't stop eating 'em"script...

Procter & Gamble said a small shipment of its Pringles-brand potato chips rejected by Chinese quality inspectors involved a product not designed for release in the China market. Charles Zhang, a Guangzhou-based spokesman for the company, told XFN-As...

Snyder's of Hanover, Hanover, Pennsylvania, officially acquired Jays Foods, Chicago, on Tuesday, December 4 after a bankruptcy auction was held in Chicago on November 30. Shortly after the Judge approved the transaction, Jays Foods officially closed t...

Pringles potato chips are not made with an additive banned in China, Procter &Gamble Co, which markets the potato chips, said on Friday. China state media had reported on Friday that a batch of chips had been blocked from import. The batch of bar...

The food industry is embracing umami as part of an effort to deliver highly flavored foods to consumers while also cutting back on fat, salt, sugar and artificial ingredients.    It was identified in the early 20th century by Kikunae Ikeda, a Japanese ...

Turner International India has dragged potato wafer-maker Gee Pee Foods to court for using its Pogo channel name to brand its wafers, thereby scripting yet another patent skirmish. The Kolkata-based food company has been manufacturing Pogo chips sinc...

ConAgra Foods has said it has removed nearly three million pounds of sodium from a range of products without affecting taste.The firm said it will continue to look at ways of cutting down salt, and said it has already managed to remove up to 20 per cen...

Last week I received more information on one of the two (!) large potato conferences next year in India, so I decided this was a good time to pay attention to the fast changes in the Indian Potato Processing industry.

Packets of the popular snack Pringles were Wednesday removed from Hong Kong supermarkets after tests in mainland China found them to contain a cancer-causing chemical. Barbecue-flavoured packets of the potato crisps were taken off sale in Wellcome, one...

Jays Potato Chips is closing its South Side plant, effective today, and taking 220 jobs with it.The 80-year-old company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Oct. 11, received bankruptcy court approval Tuesday to sell its assets for $24.8 million ...

Ontario is taking action to make schools healthier places to learn by moving to drop trans fat from lunchroom menus."Our kids' health is just too important to risk,"said Premier Dalton McGuinty. "Trans fats have no place in our schools a...