Potato News

Deep River Snacks, a family owned and operated gourmet snack food company is happy to announce expanded distribution with Great State Beverages, Inc., a local beverage distributor serving New Hampshire and Blue Coast Beverage, a subsidiary of Great Sta...

The USDA NASS Cold Storage report released yesterday indicates there was a total of 1,106,521,000 pounds of frozen potato products in storage in the United States on February 28 2010. This is down 7% from last year and slightly up from the amount in s...

Maggie returned with her husband to his family home in Chuzhou on the eve of the Chinese New Year, just in time for the grand opening of the city's first KFC restaurant. She took her husband's nephews to the big event – and waited a half-hour just to ...

McCain Foods (SA) - South Africa's largest frozen chip (french fries), vegetables and ready made meals manufacturer - has launched its first-ever South African website. The website is part of McCain Foods ongoing effort to provide relevant information ...

Key Technology announces the appointment of Dr. Michael Nichols as Senior Director of Research and Development. Nichols is responsible for extending the company’s leadership position by implementing programs to develop and acquire new technologies tha...

Nearly half of all primary schools in the UK are getting passionate about potatoes, as the largest educational project for young children gets underway. ‘Grow Your Own Potatoes’ from Potato Council, now in its sixth year, is helping hundreds of thousa...

As President Barack Obama prepares to sign a sweeping health care reform bill into law, the foodservice industry faces changes of historic proportion. In addition to requiring many restaurant operators to contribute to health care coverage for their ...

A Princeton University research team has demonstrated that all sweeteners are not equal when it comes to weight gain: Rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their o...

La compañía alimenticia PepsiCo planea reducir en un cuarto el sodio encontrado en cada porción de los productos de sus marcas principales en un plazo de cinco años, anunció el lunes. La compañía, que fabrica papas fritas Frito-Lay y bebidas Pepsi, an...

The USPB announces Don Ladhoff will lead the retail efforts of the Domestic Marketing Program. He will provide key input to strategy and guide the tactical execution of the program, with the goal of increasing demand for potatoes in the retail enviro...

Later this month, at a pilot manufacturing plant in Plano, Texas PepsiCo Inc. plans to start churning out batches of a secret new ingredient to make its Lay's potato chips healthier. The ingredient is a new "designer salt"whose crystals are ...

After the economy came crashing down in late 2008, consumers instinctively gravitated toward things that were more stripped down. The quest for simplicity was even reflected in those consumers’ choices of packaged goods. The cluttered look of the boom ...