食品趋势

De aardappelhandel is compleet overdonderd door de eis van het Nederlandse ministerie dat de aardappelen eerst gewassen moeten worden voordat ze voor export naar Rusland mogen.

De aardappeltermijnmarkt beleefde een zeer slechte handelsweek.

Breeders Trust, an organisation looking after the interest of potato breeders, is taking the Belgian Federaal Agentschap voor de Veiligheid van de Voedselketen (FAVV;Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain) to court.

El Índice de la FAO para los precios de los alimentos ha bajado por vez primera tras ocho meses seguidos de incrementos, según anunció hoy la Organización de la ONU. El Índice tuvo un promedio de 230 puntos en marzo de 2011, un descenso del 2,9 por ci...

New York's City Council announced its proposal to outlaw toys and other incentives from meals that don't meet extensive nutrition requirements

Although consumers are spending a limited amount of their total and food expenditure on fresh fruit and vegetables, price is among the top purchase criteria. However, market observations show that fruit and vegetables are not expensive or becoming more...

School cooks across the country are being offered new inspiration for using potatoes on healthy menus for children

A New York City lawmaker has proposed a bill that would ban fast-food restaurant gimmicks that include children's toys, like the McDonald's Happy Meal, unless the meal meets certain nutritional standards.

This week, the Washington Department of Labor and Industries investigation cited Washington Potato Company for 12 serious safety violations and three repeat serious violations with a $99,000 penalty.

There is still no word on why Henk Tepper of New Brunswick is in custody in Lebanon.

The FAO Food Price Index (FFPI) averaged 230 points in March 2011, down 2.9 percent from its peak in February, but still 37 percent above March last year. International prices of oils and sugar contracted the most, followed by cereals. By contrast, da...

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) today kicked off a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hamburger University, its signature training and education facility. In 1961, Hamburger University began in a McDonald's restaurant basement in Elk ...

McDonald’s Corp. officials said the company’s plan to hire 50,000 people in one day presents it with an opportunity to show that a “McJob” isn’t a dead end but rather the start of a career.

Fair Trade, organic, sustainable and eco-friendly are making their way on to package labels across all categories, but how do consumers actually view these products?

Given that world potato production is about 320 million tons per year (20 million tons per year in the United States) and world tomato production is about 120 million tons per year (13 million tons per year in the U.S.), late blight is a major problem worldwide even today.

So you don’t quite feel up to struggling through all 183 pages of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s proposed menu-labeling regulation?

Stamppot to go, een innovatief eetconcept uit 2009, houdt op te bestaan. Het stamppotconcept is geen succes geworden.