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White potatoes are due to be back in a federal nutrition program for low-income women and children. After lobbying by Idaho's congressional delegation, the potato was included from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's nutrition programs, including the...

SunChips, Frito-Lay's popular line of multigrain snacks, is stepping up to help rebuild the city of Greensburg, Kansas, which was tragically struck by a devastating tornado that destroyed nearly all of the community. In conjunction with Discovery Commu...

National Potato Council (NPC) has signed onto a letter with many other groups requesting Chairman Byrd (D-WV) of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member Cochran (R-MS)  include additional funding for PL 480 Title II food aid in the Senat...

Pedro Padierna Bartning, presidente de PepsiCo Región Sabritas, dijo que no colocarán etiquetas en sus productos que adviertan sobre efectos de obesidad al ser consumidos, "porque no existe una relación entre la obesidad y el consumo de nuestros p...

Consuming large amounts of acrylamide, a chemical commonly found in French fries, cakes, snacks and even coffee, appears to raise the risk of kidney cancer, especially in smokers, Dutch researchers report. "Ours is the first report of a positiv...

Triarc Companies, Inc. announced the results of operations for its fiscal first quarter ended March 30, 2008. Highlights for the first quarter of 2008 as compared to the first quarter of 2007 include: -- Sales increased 5.7% to $281.6 million for Comp...

Being an ex-refugee didn’t stop Dr Mai Tran from getting her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in chemical and material engineering. For her PhD thesis, Mrs Tran chose the humble spud;the subject of her main experiment was to reduce the oil content in potato...

Thursday, fast-food chain McDonald's Corp.served up tasty April sales results. The company’s global comparable sales increased 5% in April.Systemwide sales for McDonald's worldwide restaurants increased 13.7% in April, or 6.5% in constant currencies. U...

The Bangladeshi caretaker government has arranged a three-day mega potato fair in capital Dhaka with companies and hotels showcasing recipes to popularizes the vegetable as a top food item to ease pressure off the main staple rice. The country's first ...

Last week we posted an article that multihead weigher manufacturer Ishida filed an injunction against 3 Chinese exhibitors at the Interpack. Ishida accuses them of infringing their patents.

Burger King Corp. (NYSE:BKC) announced the appointment of Gladys DeClouet as senior vice president, North America company operations. DeClouet succeeds Dave Gagnon, who announced his intention to leave the company at the end of the fiscal year. DeCloue...

All necessary measures have been taken to remove the contaminated Ukrainian sunflower oil imported into Europe in recent weeks from the market, says the European Commission.   Most of the oil, which was contaminated with a lubricant mineral, has been d...

The announcement by Taypack Potatoes in Perthshire yesterday that it had cut its £32 million-a-year contract with Asda, Britain's third-largest supermarket group, was met with surprise by insiders. The company, which started up in 1986, supplies Asda w...

Burger King Holdings Inc, la segunda mayor cadena de restaurantes de hamburguesas del mundo, informó el jueves un aumento en sus utilidades del tercer trimestre fiscal, gracias a mayores ventas en restaurantes nuevos y remodelados.   La compañía, conoc...

La cadena de comidas rápidas sumará seis sucursales en la Argentina, después de un parate casi total. Los directivos revelaron que planean crecer en los próximos cinco años con un ritmo de hasta 10 aperturas anuales. La empresa se tomó un parate en la ...

Burger King Holdings said its first quarter earnings grew 21 percent, driven by higher sales at new restaurants. The Miami-based burger chain said it earned $41 million, or 30 cents a share, on revenue of $594 million. In the prior-year quarter, the r...

The labels will allow shoppers to compare the goods' green count in the same way that they can already compare prices and calorie content.The information will initially appear on 20 items across ranges of Tesco own-brand light bulbs, potatoes, orange ...

QSR Brands Bhd hopes to set up four Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlets a year in Phnom Penh. This is given the robust growth of the city's tourism industry, said chairman Tan Sri Muhammad Ali Hashim. He said four outlets would be set up by year-end ...