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六月 10, 2009

Healthy alternatives to snack frying

The snacks industry has responded positively to demands from consumers for healthier snacks by reformulating, but there is an urgent need to further improve the nutritional profile if market share is not to be lost as consumers search for alternatives ...

六月 08, 2009

United Biscuits promotes Hula Hoops with Finger Puppetry consumer challenge

Hula Hoops is back on TV to advertise an exciting new on-pack promotion, an interactive website and a new TV advertising campaign. Launching in July, the campaign from United Biscuits UK will ensure Hula Hoops is the star performer for retailers this s...

六月 02, 2009

Walkers launches Brit Trips remake: Gary's Great Trips

Walkers, the UK’s no.1 crisps and snacks manufacturer, is back on TV with a multi million pound advertising campaign for its Gary’s Great Trips on-pack promotion. This exciting promotion offers shoppers genuine value by collecting points which can be e...

五月 28, 2009

Blight pressure warning for potato growers in South England

Potato growers in the South of England are being warned that this weekend could see the season’s first major threat of intense potato blight pressure.Syngenta BlightCAST is predicting ‘near-miss’ Smith Periods right through Friday, Saturday and into Su...

五月 22, 2009

Craft Guild endorsement for Aviko frozen mashed potato

Aviko’s Super Mash has become the first frozen product to be endorsed with the Craft Guild of Chefs “Fit for Purpose and Quality Assurance” assessment. All varieties of Super Mash were tested rigorously by Craft Guild chefs, including one working in ...

五月 22, 2009

Potato recipe tips by chefs and foodservice heads

Where would we be without the humble potato? It has a place in starters, mains, sides and even desserts. Emma White spoke to chefs and food service heads for their recipe recommendations When it comes to versatile ingredients, the potato has to be clo...

五月 21, 2009

Las Pringles vuelven a ser patatas

Dejaron de serlo durante unos años para la justicia británica, pero hoy la Corte de Apelación ha decidido que las Pringles son «patatas chip» y, lo más importante, han de pagar el 15% de impuesto que llevan todos los productos comestibles en el Reino q...

五月 20, 2009

Pringles are potato chips after all, judge rules

The UK taxman has won the right to charge a VAT bill worth 20p for every pack of Pringles sold after a landmark court case defining the product as a crisp. The manufacturers Procter &Gamble has been arguing for many years that the Pringle should ...

五月 20, 2009

Greenvale closing potato processing plant in Wisbech

Up to 17 jobs could go following the announcement that Greenvale Foods will be shutting its potato processing plant in Wisbech by June 14.Some of the equipment and current orders will be transferred to the company's factory in Telford.A spokesman for G...

五月 18, 2009

FSA publishes revised salt reduction targets for 2012

In May 2009 the Agency published revised salt reduction targets for 2012, for 80 categories of foods. These are more challenging than the previous targets for 2010. The earlier voluntary salt reduction targets were published in March 2006 for 85 catego...

五月 08, 2009

Builders Breakfast winning flavour in Walkers 'do us a flavour' campaign

Walkers, the UK’s No.1 crisps and snacks manufacturer, today announces Builders Breakfast as the winning flavour of its hugely successful ‘Do us a flavour’ campaign. Receiving a massive 232,000 votes, Builders Breakfast will now become a permanent flav...

五月 07, 2009

Traffic light-GDA combo best in UK labelling study

Nutrition labelling is a hot topic since a new regulation that would make one standardised system mandatory across the EU is currently being debated. At present many different schemes are used in the EU, and indeed within individual member states, whic...

四月 21, 2009

Eco-friendly potato variety Vales Sovereign available to caterers

Greenvale AP’s environmentally friendly Vales Sovereign potatoes, which have a lower carbon footprint than traditional varieties, are now available to the catering sector via wholesalers. Vales Sovereigns are ideal for caterers seeking to lower their...

四月 21, 2009

Unilever makes a commitment to reduce salt

Unilever today announced the launch of a global salt reduction strategy for its Foods portfolio, covering over 22 000 products.Unilever has committed to a reduction in salt across its products to target a dietary intake of 6g of salt per day by the end...

四月 17, 2009

£3.5m for potato disease research

Scientists of the University of Dundee will lead a £3.5m investigation into potato blight, which was responsible for the Irish potato famine and problems across the globe.Blight costs the potato industry more than £3bn a year due to crop failure and th...

四月 14, 2009

Retail Frozen Food Market in the UK keeps growing

The latest data from TNS Worldpanel for the United Kingdom in the 52 weeks ending 25th January 2009 shows the UK retail market for frozen food increased in value by 6.7% year on year. The market has now shown 10 consecutive quarters of accelerating gr...

四月 11, 2009

BFFF: Energy savings possible in the Frozen Food cold chain

The British Frozen Food Federation (BFFF) identified opportunities for energy savings and the related CO2 emission reductions related to improved temperature management in frozen food manufacturing and in cold stores.The project had support and fundin...

四月 10, 2009

UK Potato Growers report good planting progress

Main crop potato planting is well under way across the UK, with many areas nearing completion.Rob Burrow of the Potato Council says: "Despite a slow start, due to low soil temperatures in some areas, planting has gone very well and has been proble...