Potato News

The UK is the country most attached to fast food, closely followed by the United States, a survey has suggested.A poll of 9,000 people in 13 nations, alongside a BBC investigation into global obesity, found vast variations in attitudes towards food and...

Britain introduced a ban on advertising junk food to under-16s Tuesday, aimed at promoting healthy eating and countering growing child obesity. The ban, which extends measures already in place for under-10s, will curb television adverts for food and ...

With new arrivals at mandis across the country, the potato prices have hit the rock bottom during the past one month.According to traders, wholesale prices of potato came down by an average 40-50 per cent in various mandis over the last one month.At Fa...

In the New Year, expect to see a flood of new food products boasting their ailment-specific benefits — everything from fighting colds to cancer, from easing arthritis to wrinkles. But the predicted growth of "value-added"foods is just part ...

Malaysia's crude palm oil (CPO) production rose 4.4 percent to 1.6 MMT in November. The increase in palm oil production and decline in palm oil exports more than offset the increase in domestic disappearance, resulting in an increase in carryout stocks...

Lifestyle and demographic changes have fueled growth in the ready-to-eat and snack distribution outlets representing over 45,000 points of sale in France, with 2006 sales growth over five percent. Best prospects are chips and crisps, snack foods, bagel...

The latest buzz phrase is “food print”, the amount of land needed to supply one person’s nutritional needs for a year. With the world population growing by an estimated half a billion every decade, and a concomitant loss of agricultural land to housing...

A Lehman Brothers analyst said Monday Wendy's International Inc., the nation's No. 3 hamburger chain, is struggling to turn its business around, despite a consumer environment that should help fast food restaurants garner more customers. Analyst Jeffr...

The Wisbech standard reports that Lamb Weston Meijer, the Dutch potato processing company co-owned by United States-headquartered ConAgra Foods/Lamb Weston and Meijer Beheer B.V. of the Netherlands, is planning a new facility in Wisbech, United Kingdo...

El jueves 20 de diciembre Mc Cain Argentina, con sede en la ciudad de Balcarce, presentó en el Auditorio del Museo Fangio, una importante herramienta de informática, para que a través de Internet, los productores proveedores de Mc Cain puedan tener acc...

Een kip brengt 86 minuten door in een legbatterij voor de mayonaise op een frietje mét, berekende de Stichting Wakker Dier. Na de succesvolle ‘biggencampagne’ wil de Stichting nu het gebruik van legbatterijeieren uitbannen. Volgens wakker Dier kiest de...

A fire station crew must be a little embarrassed by the way some of this state's famous potatoes got fried. Boise, Idaho firefighters returning from a medical call had to turn their hose on the firehouse kitchen after an overheated pan full of Tater T...