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五月 22, 2025
KMC amba Partners with Daymer Ingredients to Expand Sustainable Potato-Based Solutions in the UK
KMC has partnered with UK-based Daymer Ingredients to expand its potato-based solutions in the UK. The collaboration focuses on clean label starches and aims to support sustainable, plant-based innovations for food manufacturers.
十月 06, 2022
KP Snacks reformulates entire popchips range to be non-HFSS
KP Snacks has announced the launch of its newly reformulated non-HFSS (high in fat, salt and sugar) popchips portfolio. Appearing in stores as part of a phased roll-out, the entire popchips range, which includes the classic favourites Sea Salt
十一月 17, 2020
Annual Cambridge Potato Conference will be an online event this year
After much discussion and planning by the CUPGRA Executive Committee, it has been decided, owing to COVID-19 restrictions, to go ahead with a virtual conference to continue the unbroken run of 30 successful CUPGRA Cambridge Potato Conferences.
五月 30, 2016
Purple Magic potato reaches finals of Northern Ireland Innovation competition INVENT 2016
Purple Magic, a Northern Ireland potato with high anthocyanin content, was bred by Paul Watts at the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute and just reached the finals of INVENT 2016, a Northern Ireland innovation competition.From the archive
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二月 25, 2014
Potatoes: convincing government of their importance
Potato Council acts as a knowledge house for Government raising the importance of the potato. Two years since this work programme started there has been a real increase in knowledge about potatoes amongst parliamentarians with 83% now regarding potatoes as an important crop.From the archive

十月 09, 2011
Kids expect familiar snacks to be more filling
New research, led by psychologists at the University of Bristol, has found that children who are familiar with a snack food will expect it to be more filling. This finding, published (online ahead of print) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutriti...From the archive

四月 02, 2011
The great potato debate: potatoes ARE vegetables
In Britain, each person eats 207lb of this versatile vegetable every year and surveys suggest two-thirds of us believe in the case of the jacket spud at least that it qualifies as one of our recommended 'five portions of fruit and veg a day'.From the archive

一月 12, 2011
Seabrook Crisps launches 'Goodbye Salt, Hello Flavour' range with 90 per cent less salt
Seabrook Crisps Ltd has invested £1.5m in developing four new flavours of crisp, each with 90 per cent less salt. The new product, called Goodbye salt, Hello flavour, will be available in Jacket potato with Mediterranean tomato &herbs;Jacket potat...From the archive
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七月 12, 2010
Food Standard Agency to be abolished by health secretary
The Food Standards Agency is to be abolished by Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, it emerged last night, after the watchdog fought a running battle with industry over the introduction of colour-coded "traffic light"warnings for groceries,...From the archive

六月 22, 2010
Piden prohibir grasas trans en alimentos en el Reino Unido
El organismo que regula los alimentos y fármacos en el Reino Unido está pidiendo que en Inglaterra se eliminen de los alimentos los ácidos grasos trans. Estos compuestos son un tipo de grasas insaturadas presentes principalmente en productos que han s...From the archive

六月 22, 2010
Cut salt and saturated fat levels in processed food to save thousands of lives, says NICE
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the United Kingdom has published new guidance on opportunities to improve the nation's diet. Tens of thousands of lives could be saved, and millions of people spared the suffering of ...From the archive

六月 22, 2010
FDF responds to new NICE guidelines
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) responded to the publication earlier today of the NICE guidance on opportunities to improve the diet in the United Kingdom. Julian Hunt, FDF's Director of Communication states: "We are surprised that NICE has...From the archive




