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McDonald's Corp sorprendió gratamente el martes al mercado con un aumento del 4,8 por ciento en las ventas mundiales de mayo, pero advirtió que el tipo de cambio golpeará sus ganancias de todo el año. En base al tipo de cambio actual, en particular el...

La multinacional de alimentación y bebidas PepsiCo ha anunciado que reducirá su consumo de agua en Reino Unido mediante un método innovador, consistente en extraerla de las patatas que utiliza para elaborar algunos de sus productos y reciclarla para su...

ConAgra Foods, Inc., announced today that it has reached an agreement to sell its Gilroy Foods &Flavors dehydrated and vegetable product operations to Olam International for $250 million, subject to final working capital adjustments. The seasoning ...

Although restaurant traffic declined for the seventh consecutive quarter in the first quarter of 2010, the rate of visit losses began to ease compared to steeper declines in previous quarters, according to The NPD Group.

The Texas A&M University published research that breast cancer cells died after treatments with peach and plum extracts. The researchers identified chlorogenic acid and neochlorogenic acid as the components responsible for killing the cancer cells...

Irving-owned Cavendish Farms is making arguments before a tribunal in the hopes of overturning an order that would force it to sign contracts with farmers before planting season. In 2008 and 2009, farmers were frustrated by delays from the company th...

Los productos mínimamente procesados de materias primas vegetales san hechos con el mínimo posible de daño a las células. El procesamiento mínimo de tubérculos de papa incluye la sanitización, pelamiento, fraccionamiento y acondicionamiento hasta el ...

The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit focused on public health, scoured nearly 100,000 produce pesticide reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to determine what fruits and vegetables we eat hav...

After successfully founding Cultures Fresh Food Restaurants and New York Fries, Toronto entrepreneur Jay Gould ventured into premium burgers in 2005 with the opening South Street Burger Co. in Toronto. He opened his 12th store this year -- all them in ...

Both attendee and exhibitor numbers showed positive growth at the 91st annual NRA Show. The increases highlight the NRA Show's position in the restaurant and hospitality industry.

The picture above is from a blog about how to make McDonald's style french fries at home. The average blog on french fries does not make it to our news section, but this blog is in no way average! First of all you will admire the length this blogger...

Fears that removing harmful trans fats from foods would open the door for manufacturers and restaurants to add other harmful fats to foods seem to be unfounded, a new study finds. A team from Harvard School of Public Health analyzed 83 reformulated p...

Hardee’s sales remained positive in late April and early May while those of sister brand Carl’s Jr. were still in negative territory as a result of the challenging economy in California, CKE Restaurants Inc. said Wednesday.   For the four weeks ended M...

Buyout firm Palladium Equity Partners is exploring a sale of Wise Foods, the maker of Cheez Doodles and Wise potato chips, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.Palladium has hired investment bank Piper Jaffray Cos. to find potential buy...

Entire fast-food empires have been built around the french fry. But companies still continue to pursue perfection -- as in, a better-for-you fry. The immodestly named Perfect Fry company, out of Calgary, claims to have nailed it. At the National Res...

Citing better-than-expected performance in several foodservice segments, Technomic adjusted its 2010 U.S. foodservice industry nominal growth forecast upward from a decline of 1.6 percent to positive growth of 0.6 percent."The most significant cha...

Michael Foods, one of the largest players in the U.S. egg industry, is being sold by one private equity owner to another. The buyer is the private equity arm of Goldman Sachs, the companies said Friday, in a deal that values Michael Foods at $1.7 bill...

Recent research from Mintel Menu Insights found that snacking is the new way to order at restaurants. Menu items that contain the descriptors “snack,” “snackable,” or “snacker” have increased by a staggering 170% since 2007 and growth is expected to c...