Potato News

Amflora potatoes, likely to become the first genetically modified crop in the past decade to be approved for growth in Europe, have become the unlikely poster child in the angry debate over such products on the Continent. The European Commission now s...

Snack-maker Frito-Lay says it will investigate what it is calling an "unsubstantiated claim"that a man found a deep-fried mouse in a bag of barbecue potato chips.Frito-Lay, which is owned by PepsiCo, was sending a representative to retrieve t...

Chain restaurants in Seattle and other parts of Washington’s King County would be required to post nutrition information on menus and menu boards as of Aug. 1, 2008 under a law approved Thursday by the county Board of Health. The nation’s second menu-...

Think of Dairy Queen and ice cream likely comes to mind. The company has put a different spin on that image with a “fast casual” restaurant format called DQ Grill &Chill, selling ice cream and menu items like flame-grilled burgers, turkey sandwiche...

When a passerby filmed rats scampering around a KFC/Taco Bell restaurant in New York in February, the fallout was immediate and widespread. “There are a lot of rats in New York, and familiarity breeds contempt,” said Mark Sheperdigian, vice president o...

De diepvriesgroentespecialist Pinguin zet zijn opmars op Euronext Brussel verder. Nadat het aandeel dinsdag al 7,6 procent had gewonnen, kwam er woensdag om 11u15 opnieuw 14,4 procent bij en noteerde Pinguin op 19,45 euro.

Curtains of oil provide a cleaner frying of product than submersion systems, says Heat and Control about its new HeatWave fryer, released this week. The company's HeatWave system is designed so freshly filtered and heated oil enters the pan in multiple...

Op een gemiddelde dag eet 13 procent van de Belgen friet. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van VLAM. Het gaat in de eerste plaats om het thuis eten van zelfgebakken (diepvries)friet. De frituren in ons land krijgen dagelijks zo'n 460.000 hongerige magen over d...

Tasmanian potato growers have won a 12 per cent price jump for next season from vegetable processor Simplot. An extra $30 a tonne will be paid for first grade potatoes and $27.50 for all other processing potatoes. The Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Ass...

The fast-food operator -- running such names as Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, Long John Silver's, and A&W -- posted strong second-quarter figures, with -- you guessed it -- revenue growth from China leading the way. Comparable same-store sales from it...

McDonald's Corp.'s (MCD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) chief executive sees plenty of room to increase U.S. sales and said it continues to review its debt levels, which it will discuss on a conference call with analysts next week. "We continue to ha...

A European Union move to let its farmers grow a genetically modified potato developed by BASF AG suggests the EU is starting to make concessions to the farm biotech industry, although not enough to satisfy companies. The decision to allow cultivation o...

McDonald's Corp. said Monday it expects to post its second quarterly loss in more than 50 years because of a hefty one-time charge on the sale of some Latin American operations. But the world's biggest fast food restaurant chain said its business is gr...

Last week at the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade's annual Fancy Food Show, more than 2,300 specialty-food makers converged on the Javits Center, all looking to take a bite out of the specialty food market. Among the sellers of sauces,...

Sibirsky Bereg continues to expand its business across the CIS. In June this year, the company launched a factory in Uzbekistan, to produce a popular salted baked bread snack, Kirieshki, Vedomosti reported. Sibrisky Bereg is the manufacturer of the po...

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