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Want some fries with that? At Wendy's the answer increasingly seems to be yes, thanks to the chain replacing its thin and soggy french fries with a crisper, skin-on version flavored with sea salt.

More than 1100 snack food executives and suppliers from 38 countries are on hand at SNAXPO 2011 in Orlando, where they are gaining insight and knowledge at educational sessions as well as from trade show exhibitors and their counterparts from across t...

The two partners of the international company for seed potatoes van Rijn – KWS B.V. have decided that KWS will take over the 50% shares of van Rijn as of April 1st, 2011.

Missourians can once again claim their state as the home of one of the world’s largest potato chips.

The Washington Potato Commission approved about 742-thousand dollars in research projects for the upcoming growing season at its quarterly meeting this month.

PepsiCo Nederland heeft afgelopen week het zoutgehalte van Lay’s Superchips, Lay’s Light, Lay’s Sticks en Duyvis met een kwart verminderd.

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America's leading packaged food companies, today reported results for the fiscal 2011 third quarter ended Feb. 27, 2011.

As members of the restaurant industry eagerly await federal menu-labeling guidelines, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the complexity of the issue is delaying the promulgation of the regulations.

HardCastle India, which runs the south and west franchisee of McDonald’s in India, is on in expansion mode ever since McDonald’s Corp conferred it with the Development Licensee status.

Una planta de procesamiento de papa andina y quinoa será construida en un paraje del departamento salteño Rosario de Lerma, tras la firma de un convenio entre funcionarios salteños y el sacerdote Sigrfrido Moroder, que preside una fundación solidaria e...

March 22 is 'world water day’ and a diversity of organisations are making use of this day to check the water use in the production of a wide variety of food stuffs.

As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) readies to submit its proposed regulations for the federal menu labeling law by the March 23, 2011 deadline, the lingering question is how will U.S. consumers react to seeing calories on menus?

Salty snack eaters craving change have much innovation to celebrate in the salty snack aisle.

Tim O'Connor, United States Potato Board president and CEO, discusses the good news about consumer attitudes and potato consumption at the USPB's annual meeting.

Functional Technologies Corp. (TSX-V: FEB) is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Phyterra Yeast Inc., has been awarded $2.5 million from the Government of Canada's Atlantic Innovation Fund

The US National Potato Council (NPC) has launched a new website to help defend the Potato in School Lunch.