食品趋势

Have it your way - you're out of business. That's the message from Burger King to the owners of two midtown franchises who have been embroiled in a food fight with the company over the restaurant chain's value menu. Luan Sadik and his sister, Elizabeth...

French fries, once the snack of ball games, bowling lanes, and clam shacks, are now on every sort of menu.Today's fries, however, aren't just shoestrings in a clever presentation. Chefs are sprinkling them with all kinds of sea salt, grated cheeses suc...

The International Year of the Potato has got off to a bad start for local potato growers, with yields well down due to a cold spring and dry summer. Potato Product Group chairman Terry Olsen said crops already harvested this year have had far lighter ...

McDonalds has introduced "McBreakfast", new for the Ukraine market, but a very popular in other countries special morning menu. The components of the new menu will appear in all restaurants of McDonald's chain by the end of 2009 in Ukraine. T...

The aim in developing the carbon reduction label has always been two-fold. The first is to encourage businesses to measure, and then reduce, the carbon footprint of their products. All the partners who adopt the Carbon Trust label commit to a “reduce...

Texas Chicken, the international brand of Atlanta-based Church’s Chicken, has opened its first restaurant in the United Kingdom, with plans to open 36 restaurants by the end of March and 50 before the year’s end. This growth will make the United Kingd...

Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Triarc Companies, Inc. announced today that it exceeded its development goals for 2007 with the opening of 148 Arby’s restaurants and the signing of new commitments to open an additional 197 restaurants th...

Nothing goes better with salty than sweet and that might be the reason why kids who snack on salty foods tend to drink calorie-rich sodas and put on more weight, an article in Hypertension suggests. It’s well known that eating salty foods can make you...

Bernama.com reports that QSR Brands Bhd has signed an agreement with Royal Group of Companies Ltd (RGC) and Rightlink Corporation Ltd Hong Kong (RCL) to form a joint venture company to operate the Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurant (KFC Cambodia) busine...

At a joint Nestlé-UN Global Compact event in New York, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman and CEO of Nestlé, today presented the company's first Creating Shared Value report, including new figures on the impact of its business activities on the environ...

Potato cultivators in north Dinajpur district are facing a crisis to preserve their crops due to absence of adequate number of cold storages in the district. Having found no space to preserve they are being compelled to sell their crops in the market a...

McCain Foods is cutting production of frozen juice concentrate at its beverage plant in Grand Falls, N.B., eliminating about 30 jobs. McCain says the jobs will be gone by April 18 when it consolidates production in Toronto. The company says the move w...

In this study, a numerical model was developed to simulate frying of potato strips and estimate acrylamide levels in French fries. Heat and mass transfer parameters determined during frying of potato strips and the formation and degradation kinetic par...

Aviko heeft vorig jaar 40 miljoen euro winst gemaakt. In 2006 draaide het dochterbedrijf van coöperatie Cosun nog met verlies. Het was daarom niet te voorzien dat de niet-suikeractiviteiten van Cosun zou leiden tot een plus op de bietenprijs van 6 eur...

McDonald's Corporation anunció hoy que José Armario ha sido designado Presidente de Grupo de McDonald's Canadá y América Latina, con vigencia inmediata. Armario ha sido el Presidente de McDonald's América Latina desde 2003.

Burger King Europa dejará de publicitar entre los niños menores de 12 años aquellos menús que no cumplan ciertos requisitos nutricionales impuestos por la propia compañía.   Según la cadena de comida rápida, esta iniciativa tiene como objetivo promove...

UK consumers are increasingly buying food and drink products for their ethical credentials, the Checkout Nielsen Top 100 Grocery Brands 2008 report reveals. The study from Talking Retail – compiled in partnership with global market research company N...

Today we want to address a new development in the snack sector which I would call: 'Snack production going local' . Two companies, 'Fresh Chips' and 'The Chippery' each offer a different concept that eliminates the industrial potato chips production line or the snack factory and replaces it with a mini factory you may soon find on your street corner, literally.