Potato News

In time for the festive period, Kettle Chips is introducing a winter seasonal flavour, Stilton and Port, to its range of hand cooked chips in the UK.

Nutrition rating systems and symbols on the fronts of food packaging would be most useful to shoppers if they highlighted four nutrients of greatest concern – calories, saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium – says a new report from the Institute of Med...

La investigación que acaba de publicar la Universidad de California, Davis y el Centro Nacional de Inocuidad de los Alimentos y Tecnología, organismo perteneciente al Instituto de Tecnología de Illinois, demuestra que las personas pueden incluir la pap...

Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited (NYSE: BG), announced that it plans to more than double the capacity of its canola processing plant in Altona, Manitoba.

ConAgra Foods, Inc., announced today new research indicating that a daily snack of Orville Redenbacher's 94 percent fat-free SmartPop!(R) popcorn can help dieters maintain reduced calorie eating plans while still feeling full and satisfied.

Diamond Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq:DMND) is looking for the best location to expand it's US production of kettle brand products.

Russians' love of potatoes may be force them to turn to Egypt and even America to replace crop lost to this summer's drought.

Tasmanian potato growers supplying Simplot have reluctantly agreed to a AU$25 cut per tonne of potatoes grown this season.

Research just released by the University of California, Davis and the National Center for Food Safety and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology demonstrates that people can include potatoes in their diet and still lose weight.

Een Duits instituut heeft een methode ontwikkeld om in een perceel te bepalen of een aardappelplant besmet is met phytophthora, de aardappelplaag.

Bosch Packaging Technology, one of the leading suppliers for total solutions in packaging and process technology, has acquired 33,000 square meters of land in the Verna Industrial Estate to build up its new plant.

The United Potato Growers of America says it is confident the group will prevail in an expanding legal battle in which the co-operative and others are accused of engaging in “classic cartel behavior” to control potato supplies and fix prices at artificially high levels.

New York City and Los Angeles County are among five jurisdictions that have won a $1.9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for sodium-reduction initiatives involving restaurants and schools.

The West Bengal government’s handling of a bumper potato crop this year is becoming a political hot potato.

HZPC Holland B.V. has realised a result of 3.6 million euro in financial year 2009/2010.Just like last year, the supervisory board decided to put at the disposal of the shareholders 65% of the profit of the company. This means a dividend of 3.00 euro p...

Bangladesh Cold Storage Association (BCSA) on Saturday urged the government to double the cash incentive from its current level of 10 percent to boost exports of the vegetable stored in 313 cold storages across the country.

Ante la buena acogida que obtuvo la primera edición del congreso entre todos los agentes involucrados en el sector de la patata temprana, y la creciente consideración de la patata como alternativa viable de cultivo frente otros en declive, desde la Aso...