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Als het aan burgemeester Aalderink van bronckhorst ligt, komt er een frietmuseum bij Aviko in Steenderen. De burgervader van Bronckhorst wil hierover binnenkort met de directie van de aardappelfabriek in gesprek. Aviko meldt dat het slechts om een idee...

A fines de abril, entrará en funcionamiento la primera planta de procesamiento de papa del Perú en la provincia de Andahuaylas (Apurímac) y producirá en el primer año unas 324 toneladas de almidón para abastecer el mercado nacional, principalmente hosp...

BMA Nederland BV has appointed Marcel Kloesmeijer as Commercieel Directeur/Vice President Sales. Marcel's appointment will further strengthen BMA’s position as a leading provider of food processing technologies and solutions for manufacturers of potat...

Fruits and vegetables - including potatoes- are the most common items on the list of 90 products hit with tariffs as of today, as Mexico retaliated against a U.S. decision to block Mexican trucks from traveling north of a commercial zone along the bo...

French fries and pizza may soon have more competition in school cafeterias in Tennessee.Grants worth $1.4 million in public dollars are being used to spur fresh vegetable consumption at some Tennessee public schools next school year. Priority will be g...

Renal specialists have called for clear labeling on products that use potassium chloride as a salt replacer because it could pose a hidden risk for dialysis patients. Potassium chloride has been seen as a potential candidate for salt replacement becaus...

Pepsico's new Red Sky Potato Chips are fried in a new way: these potato chips are continuously kettle fried. The idea behind continuously kettle frying is to replicate the typical time-temperature profile of the classical kettle frying process, but in a continuous fryer. This is not as easy as it may seem...

In a world where obesity and overweight are a growing concern for many people and where the well being of each and every one of us is becoming more important, KMC has launched FiberBind, a range of potato fibers that not only offers the individual ben...

After suffering from cost inflation nearly all of last year, relief from sky-high commodity and energy costs is here, and restaurant bottom lines should stand to benefit from deflated prices by the second half of this year, said UBS Securities analyst ...

Maine potato growers are thriving thanks to a late blight spraying advice offered by the University of Maine's cooperative extension program.

Leaf samples taken last summer by provincial potato specialists and ag chem firm Bayer CropScience throughout Canada show "widespread"presence of fungi that have mutated to resist the fungicides used most often to control them.The sampling pr...

McCain Foods has expanded one of its key plants in South Africa with the addition of three new packing lines, each based around an Ishida R-Series multihead weigher.The world’s largest producer of French fries, McCain Foods is also the leading supplier...