Tendencias Alimentarias

The 92nd annual National Restaurant Association Restaurant Show showed positive growth in attendee and exhibitor numbers

Infra-red heating and blanching, meeting today's food safety regulatory demands, innovative sorting solutions, enzymes against acrylamide and working out the real cost of ownership kept delegates busy at the final day of the 2011 International Potato Processing and Storage Convention in Denver, Colorado.

Snyder's-Lance, Inc. (Nasdaq-GS: LNCE) is proud to announce the completion of the largest ground-based solar farm in Pennsylvania. Covering 26 acres and comprised of 15,092 solar panels, the 3.5 MW Solar Farm

"Son muy sabrosas y tienen una textura muy buena. Las personas no suelen comer una o dos papas. Se comen un paquete entero", dijo el médico experto en obesidad F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer, del hospital St. Luke's-Roosevelt de Nueva York. Lo que come...

Summer potato supplies will be short, but they should be sufficient to fill retail shelves until fall harvests begin.

United Potato Growers of America sponsored a conference last week in Bloomington, MN to discuss the transition from the summer to fall crop.  The meeting was open to all growers and shippers including non-United members.

Potandon Produce has announced the winner of its Idaho Potato Lovers Month Display Contest

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America's leading food makers, today announced the purchase, effective June 9, 2011, of the Marie Callender's® brand trademarks from Marie Callender Pie Shops, Inc.

Idaho Potato Commission board members unanimously voted June 15 to oppose the U.S. Potato Board's use of a national retail trademark at the retail level.

On May 17, US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will award more than $346 million in international assistance grants

Officials and Scientists discussed the new public rollout of the MyPlate initiative during a Monday press conference at the IFT 2011 Annual Meeting and Food Expo.

Americans are snacking more than ever with retail sales of packaged snacks ringing up $64 billion in 2010, up from $56 billion in 2006

En todo el mundo las personas están cambiando su dieta por el aumento del precio de los alimentos, según se desprende de una encuesta hecha pública hoy por Oxfam en el marco de la campaña mundial CRECE, que quiere asegurar que todas las personas tengan...

Dow AgroSciences achieved an industry first with the unveiling of saturated fat free Omega-9 Sunflower Oil at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting and Food Expo in New Orleans.

Wendy's/Arby's Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEN), today announced a definitive agreement for the sale of Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. to a buyer formed by Roark Capital Group.

Incoming IFT President Roger Clemens and President-Elect John Ruff presented four companies with the 2011 IFT Food Expo Innovation Awards.

Today at the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Food Expo, Cargill introduced FlakeSelect™, a portfolio of products that enables food manufacturers to reduce sodium in snacks, baked goods and processed foods, or reformulate with sea salt, while main...

The $430 million sale of Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. to Roark Capital could be qualified as addition by subtraction for both the 3,600-unit Arby’s and its former sister chain, the 6,600-unit Wendy’s.