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Avebe heeft ruim de helft van alle zetmeelaardappelen verwerkt.Dat meldt een woordvoerder van het aardappelzetmeelconcern. "De verwerking verloopt voorspoedig."De kwaliteit van de aangevoerde aardappelen was de afgelopen maanden goed, zegt de...

I remember hanging out with Jay Gould's family 25 years ago and hearing him talk about starting a business which would initially sell, skin-on french fries and Coca-Cola. I thought it was a bold move for someone who had cut his teeth on one of Canada...

Health Canada is proposing an unorthodox way of combatting acrylamide, a food ingredient suspected in some cancers: It wants to let manufacturers put small amounts of asparaginase - also used as a cancer-fighting drug - into potato chips and similar fo...

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America’s leading packaged food companies, today reported results for the fiscal 2010 second quarter ended Nov. 29, 2009. Diluted EPS from continuing operations was $0.55 compared with $0.38 a year ago. Cur...

We want to highlight the details on Conagra Foods Lamb Weston in the just published Q2 results of Conagra Foods:"Lamb Weston profits improved, reflecting the positive impacts of higher prices necessitated by increased input costs, as well as plant...

McCain Foods Ltd. is gearing up for what could be a record year in South Africa. Its sales are booming, a state-of-the-art factory is finally up and running, and the World Cup in June will launch its products in more outlets than ever before.   McCain...

The United States Potato Board (USPB) Philippine Representative Office organized a Thanksgiving Dinner for its trade partners and media who have been supportive of US frozen potato products and events over the past several years. The dinner was held at...

Het totale exportcijfer van consumptie- en industrieaardappelen van seizoen 2009/2010 loopt ver achter op dat van de voorgaande seizoenen. Het totaalcijfer t/m november bedraagt 246.500 ton (bron N.A.O.) tegen 301.000 ton totaal t/m november 2008 (322....

Among the flurry of publications with predictions on the food trends in 2010, here is another one that you definitely should take note of: the Phil Lempert Supermarket Guru (US) readers poll.   Earlier we already featured Phil Lempert's own predictio...

India' potato output is likely to rise by 5.1 percent to a record 32.7 million tonnes in 2009/10 as higher prices prompted farmers to cultivate the tuber crop on more area, a senior official said on Friday. "Because of scanty rains in some areas t...

For generations, fish and chips have fed millions of memories - eaten with greasy fingers on a seaside holiday, a pay-day treat at the end of the working week or a late-night supper on the way home from the pub. Few can resist the mouth-watering combin...

As 2009 comes to an end, food service operators must focus on how they will better connect with customers in the New Year and prepare for a successful 2010. Mike Amos, president and CEO of customer experience management company Empathica, has put toget...