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Potato Council is encouraging school caterers to serve up a delicious and nutritious portion of potatoes every day, while urging suppliers to spread the message that potatoes can be used to help maintain compliant menus and increase their use across ...

More than 200 jobs have been saved and a further 150 posts are being created at a Corby crisp factory which had been threatened with closure.Staff at the Golden Wonder factory in Princewood Road, were told the plant is staying open after bosses hammere...

Walkers has had more than 1.1m entries and substantial web visits for its 'Do Us A Flavour' competition, asking the public to suggest a new crisp flavour for a £50,000 prize and 1% share of future royalties.Walkers expected 250,000 entries when the cam...

Today the Red Mill Snack Food Company, which is owned by Tayto Group, revealed all 300 jobs at the Wednesbury plant will go and production is moving to a plant in Corby, Northamptonshire. Production will continue until at least February.

McCain Foods Ltd., the multinational food processing company based in Florenceville, N.B., tapped into a new energy source this spring, when it began construction of a new biogas digester for its Whittlesey french fry factory in Britain. "There'...

Greenvale AP, the leading supplier of British potatoes, has come top in sustainability of food production, according to the latest results of a two-year research project just published by the Cambridge University Institute for Manufacturing.The Competi...

Improving on perfection is always a high risk strategy, but brand owner United Biscuits’ (UBUK) reckons Mini Cheddars are now better than ever.An improved recipe has added even more cheesiness to the taste and aroma of the iconic pub snack.The new reci...

Potato prices continued their seasonal slide over the past week as harvest progressed and poorer quality processing material was brought straight to the market. The Potato Council’s GB weekly average price was down to £110.24/t last week, some £10/t do...

POTATO growers must handle stored crops carefully to avoid the risk of rots developing, the Potato Council’s Sutton Bridge Experimental Unit (SBEU) has warned. As harvest progresses, reports indicate crop quality entering stores is poorer than last sea...

A 35-year-old man choked to death while eating crisps in a van on the A12 in Essex, an inquest has heard.Iain Ward, of Ilford, a map reader for a Chinese food wholesaler, was a passenger in the delivery van when the incident happened at Marks Tey, Esse...

Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc has recalled its own brand Frozen Family Favourites Potato Croquettes due to potential contamination with pieces of soft blue plastic. Wm Morrison Supermarkets plc has removed the affected products from sale. Product recal...

Bio Driven, an innovative UK company dedicated to the production of high quality, compliant biodiesel, has launched a series of new facilities and strategies to provide sustainable solutions for the food industry. It has been calculated that 225,000 ...

Tyrrells' latest adventure into the world of innovative and mouth-watering flavours delivers nothing short of a local match made in heaven. ‘Dorothy Goodbody Ale &Mature Cheddar Cheese' is the latest new winter seasonal potato chip flavour from Tyr...

Branston Ltd, the UK’s largest supplier of potatoes, is now fully ISO 14001 accredited.The company, which has a handling capacity in excess of 400,000 tonnes a year, secured the standard at its South West operation earlier this month, which means all o...

The Scottish Crop Research Institute (SCRI), near Dundee, hopes to map chromosome four of the root vegetable. The scientists would then know where genes responsible for colour, shape, and disease resistance are positioned. The new research is part of a...

Following the successful revival of Cadbury's Wispa chocolate bar, which was re-released last year in response to reportedly overwhelming consumer demand, the lurid corn snack has been reborn. And Walker's Crisps, which manufactures Monster Munch, has ...

Riding high on the wave of increased awareness generated by the ‘Love Potatoes’ summer marketing campaign, Potato Council is setting its sights on increasing potato-based meals eaten in the home even further this autumn.The new season of activity will ...

Up to 20 workers have left their jobs at the Tayto crisp factory in Corby which is under threat of closure.Eastern European workers have taken the decision to return home because of the uncertainty of jobs at the Tayto plant.The Irish crisp company ann...