News on Food Trends from the Americas

Available for a limited time, the Pringles Wavy Pineapple Habanero crisps deliver a tangy, smoky taste and the chance to win a sweet beach vacation.

Future Co-CEOs Cathy Burns of PMA and Tom Stenzel of United Fresh have named seven current association staff leaders as the senior management team for the new combined association to be launched January 1, 2022.

While most fast food outlets serve fries of some type, some chains have managed to diversify their potato offerings, clearly understanding that potatoes are one of nature's most perfect foods.

La Sader reporta pérdidas de hasta el 90 por ciento en cultivos de maíz, frijol, papa, y sorgo forrajero, en los municipios de Guachochi , Balleza, Guadalupe y Calvo. Hay afectaciones en casi 22 mil productores de los cuales se tiene registro que el 80 porciento son indígenas.

With the news of prominent restaurants going meatless, Mintel Senior Trends Analyst Diana Kelter and Global Food Analyst Melanie Zanoza Bartelme discuss the shifting impact of fine dining and fast casual influence.

The United Potato Growers of Canada (UPGC) provide an update on the potato planting in Canada (May 27, 2021). Seeding in Western Canada is winding up, while growers in the Atlantic region are in full planting mode.

Once neglected by urban consumers, Andean native potatoes are now essential ingredients for some of the most sophisticated gastronomy of the world. An overview by André Devaux and others, first published in Choices Magazine

A un chef peruano se le ocurrió abrir un restaurante y plantar a su alrededor 223 variedades de papas, a 3.568 metros sobre el nivel del mar, en la ciudad cusqueña de Moray, centro-sur del país.

Consumers Have 'Two Summers in One' Mentality as Memorial Day Approaches, Frito-Lay U.S. Snack Index Finds. Results flip: In 2020, more than 80 percent of Americans were staying home for Memorial Day; this year, 80 percent are gearing up to go out.

Nation's largest family-owned snack maker invites fans to guess the flavor combination for a chance to win $10,000.

The iconic Lay's® brand is putting some of our most iconic flavours from Doritos®, Ruffles® and Smartfood® on its classic potato chip to see who does it best in the ultimate Flavour Faceoff.

Oda Biovajilla is disposable biodegradable tableware designed from potato peel and other organic discards. This innovative initiative created by five young industrial designers from Buenos Aires consists of creating dishes from waste from the gastronomic industry.

A two-year project funded through the University of Wisconsin-Water Resources Institute is investigating an interseeding cultivation method for potato cropping that shows early promise to reduce nitrate leaching.

Dave Holm was destined to work with potatoes. He was raised on a potato farm in southeast Idaho, where his dad and grandfather instilled in him a love of one of the world’s most important crops.

Potato sales for Q3 (January – March 2021) of Marketing Year 2021 have caught up to the changed buying habits that the pandemic brought about.

Por unanimidad, ministros de la Primera Sala de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN), revocaron los amparos que un juez de distrito otorgó a productores de Sinaloa, con los cuales frenó la importación de papa fresca proveniente de EEUU.

Con la finalidad de encontrar nuevos materiales que se adapten a las zonas paperas de Honduras se establece un ensayo nacional de evaluación de 36 clones de papa.

After years of fans debating and taking sides, Cheetos® and Doritos® will officially settle the score to see which beloved brand is truly the most loved. Will it be Team Cheetos, or will it be Team Doritos?