News on Food Trends from Northern America

In their series of interviews with key people in the US potato industry, Spudman interviewed Frank Muir.

A new report by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) challenges previous analyses of the food price crisis of 2007-08.

Krunchers! Inc. is recalling Jays Original Potato Chips because of Undeclared Milk Allergen

The preliminary production estimate for the 2010 Canadian potato crop is 97,279,000 hundredweights (4 412 575 tonnes).

As the US begins to emerge from recession, restaurants are seeing lapsed customers return.

Snyder's of Hanover will begin construction on a solar farm that will be the largest ground-based solar energy system in Pennsylvania

On independent restaurant menus, potatoes of all kinds account for 44% of all carbs, according to MenuMine.

Andrew Freeman, whose Andrew Freeman &Co. of San Francisco consults on marketing for restaurants and hotels nationwide, detailed some top 2011 restaurant trends

Kemin Health, L.C. is pleased to announce that Slendesta Potato Extract may now be marketed as a non-Novel Food ingredient in Canada.

Wendy's announces the launch of its new natural-cut fries with sea salt in the United States (nationwide), marking the first complete redesign of the company's classic fries in its 41-year history.

It seems it's the time of year (already?) companies and organisations bring their predictions for trends of importance in the year 2011.

Canada's restaurant and food service industry plays a key role in Canada's economy.

The question of the moment for restaurant operators: Are the winds of healthy change truly blowing, or is it only so much hot air?

A study from Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy &Obesity charges that fast-food companies are marketing to youth now more than ever -- increasingly targeting children as young as 2 years old

Canadian Horticultural Council (CHC) Potato Committee Chair Keith Kuhl announced recently that Mark Drouin has been named Vice President, Potatoes effective October 19, 2010.

In the last PotatoPro Newsletter 'Chips bags from potato peel? Biodegradable snack packaging' we focused on the changes Frito-Lay was making to the 'noisy'biodegradable Sunchips bags. Sunchips original will continue to be sold in the 'noisy'compostable bags, but all other Sunchips versions will be packed in regular (non-compostable) packaging until an improved biodegradable packaging is developed.

This morning, with its partners and several guests from the food and packaging fields in attendance, Polytechnique Montréal inaugurated the NSERC/Saputo/Excel Pac Industrial Research Chair in Materials and films for safe, smart and sustainable (3S) packaging.