Chips en Snacks

Health Canada is proposing an unorthodox way of combatting acrylamide, a food ingredient suspected in some cancers: It wants to let manufacturers put small amounts of asparaginase - also used as a cancer-fighting drug - into potato chips and similar fo...

Delays in P.E.I. potato harvest operations are getting even worse after heavy rains continued to plague the island Thursday night.The recent wet weather has put some farmers close to two weeks behind schedule, and more rain is expected on the weekend, ...

Union representatives in Alberta are calling for a boycott of Old Dutch potato chips after the company locked out its unionized workers at Calgary on Sunday. The United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 401 confirmed Wednesday that its members h...

With the help of the publicity generated by appearing on the TV show Dragon’s Den, a local potato chip manufacturer introduced his brand to the rest of the country.And yes, the Dragons did offer Sepp Amsier a deal, but the maker of Hardbite Potato Chip...

February 16, Doritos kicked off a Canada wide contest called Become the Doritos Guru. Frito-Lay Canada has just launched a new, unidentified flavour, which is available at all major retail stores, packaged in white bags with a black and gold dollar si...

The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company Inc. in Waterville,  New Brunswick, started potato chip production late last year. Now, a short two months later, co-owner Ryan Albright says the kettle-cooked snack treats are being well received. Albright said ...

Ryan Albright has been flitting across major retail markets, launching Covered Bridge potato chips grown and processed on his farm close to Canada’s longest covered bridge near Waterville, New Brunswick. His chips turned heads at the Grocery Innovation...

PepsiCo announced today an agreement to acquire Spitz International Inc., the leading maker of sunflower and pumpkin seeds in Canada. Upon completion of the acquisition Spitz will continue its Canadian operations in Bow Island and Medicine Hat, Alberta...

The customer is always right, especially when it comes to knowing what works best in packaging appeal. That's what snack food company, Snack Alliance Inc. found after asking its Consumer Advisory Panel of 2600 members to vote on the revamped package d...

Could specialty potato chips—with roots in Ladner—snag the interest of wealthy Canadian business moguls? Sepp Amsler was willing to find out—amid the glare of national television. He pitched his Maple Ridge-based business, Hardbite Potato Chips, to a...

Frito Lay Canada said it is shutting its Pointe Claire plant by year's end, throwing 59 people out of work.Production of chips and snacks will be transferred to other Canadian plants. Frito Lay is offering unspecified severance packages to its 59 emplo...

The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company, Carleton County’s newest tourism destination is receiving a half-a-million dollar boost from the federal government. The facility is on its way to a November opening.The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company will es...

Last week we were going to buy popcorn. OK, I admit, we do not only eat potato chips. We ended up to make a choice between two healthier options

The closure of the Humpty Dumpty potato-chip plant in Summerside has P.E.I. Development Minister Richard Brown concerned about the province's investment there. The plant's 36 employees were told this week they'd be out of work by May. When it opened ...

The amount of reducing sugars in the potato are responsible for the colour formation of fried products. So if potatoes are too high in reducing sugars, they are not suitable for processing.

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.

A new potato chip factory owned by Albright Farms in Centreville, N.B., will be up and running by the end of May. Co-owner Ryan Albright says Covered Bridge Potato Co. will produce kettled chips. The factory is being built off the Trans-Canada Highwa...

Ontario is taking action to make schools healthier places to learn by moving to drop trans fat from lunchroom menus."Our kids' health is just too important to risk,"said Premier Dalton McGuinty. "Trans fats have no place in our schools a...