News on Chips and Snacks from Europe

Albert Adriá sorprende con un turrón elaborado con patatas fritas de bolsa de Lays Gourmet, cobertura de chocolate, chocolate con caramelo y praliné de macadamia tostada. 'Es un turrón que te deja sordo porque cuando lo masticas es tan crujiente que dejas de escuchar a quien te habla'

Italian potato chips manufacturer Amica has installed an ELEA pulsed electric field (PEF) system following a series of tests earlier this year.

Emsland Group’s EMWAXY® is based on high amylopectin potatoes, containing more than 99% amylopectin.

Seguro que se ha fijado y ha comprado más de una vez una bolsa de patatas fritas que llama la atención entre el resto en el supermercado. Su estética vintage atrae visualmente. Y su sabor engancha.

According to the Ministry of Investments, Industry and Science of the Moscow Region, the tenth production line was launched at the PepsiCo enterprise in the Kashirsky District (Frito Lay Manufacturing LLC). It will produce Lay's ® chips. The production capacity of the line is more than 5 thousand tons of finished products per year.

El supermercado ha revelado que son ocho las empresas que fabrican sus snacks. Tienen sedes en Barcelona, Valencia o Ciudad Real, entre otras.

Since the start of autumn, potato producers in the regions of Russia have been facing many challenges, new and old. In the Russian Federation, the average annual volume of potatoes used for food purposes is estimated to be at 13-14 million tons, which makes potato one of the most important crops in Russia. In this article, we present information about the potato situation in various regions of Russia.

World Potato Congress Inc., Europatat and the Irish Potato Federation have announced the postponement of the World Potato Congress (WPC) and the Europatat Congress planned for May/June in Dublin in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pepsico Russia has officially started the construction of a savory snack plant in Novosibirsk, its third such plant in Russia. The plant will start production end 2021 and produce Lays potato chips and 'CrunchTeam' croutons.

The Moscow region is the leader in potato processing in the Russian Federation in the first half of this year. This was announced by the Minister of Agriculture and Food Andrei Razin.

Mercadona ha comunicado que vende diariamente más de 11.000 bolsas de sus nuevas patatas fritas onduladas con sabor a queso, que son elaboradas por PepsiCo en su fábrica de Burgos y se comercializan con la marca Munchos.

Los grandes supermercados apuestan principalmente por distribuidoras nacionales para la producción de sus aperitivos más populares.

Andrés Araez: 'Cada bolsa de patatas 'Pijo' tiene una historia detrás'.

Alguno de estos peculiares sabores ya está agotado en la web de compra online del supermercado y la marca Gurma tiene disponibles otras variantes de estos snacks con sabor a paella valenciana, huevo frito o mojo picón.

Trolls-CalbeeThe oven-baked crunchy chickpea sticks are launching in two flavors, named after characters in the film – 'Barb BQ Beef Rock Strings' and 'Poppy's Ketchup Pop Strings'.

Last year, despite the difficult growing conditions as a result of the extreme heat and drought during both the 2018-2019 and the 2019-2020 seasons, the Belgian potato-processing industry once again improved the record for processed potatoes.

Las ventas 'online' de gran consumo se disparan un 73,7% en la segunda semana de confinamiento.

A surge in consumer demand for healthy home-cooked foods has seen a 'phenomenal' uplift in fresh potato sales – with increases as high as 70% with certain customers, according to Tom Keogh, managing director of well-known potato and crisp company Keogh’s.