Potato News

Nestle today refused to confirm reports that they had turned down a merger with PepsiCo last spring, a deal that would have created one of the largest and most powerful food and beverage companies in the world. Media spokesman François-Xavier Perroud d...

The Ministry of Health is funding a three year study on french fries, as part of an initiative to make the popular takeaway food healthier. Horticulture New Zealand chip group food and education spokeswoman Glenda Gourley said the funding was initially...

It wasn’t too long ago that the only thing McDonald’s seemed good at was making people fat. Staggered by overexpansion, listless sales and a barrage of negative publicity linking its food to obesity, the chain’s glory days appeared to be fading. In 200...

Burger King and McDonald's, the giants of the burger restaurant sector worth around £11 billion a year in the UK, have seen the writing on the wall and are fighting back to get their share of the gourmet burger market, pioneered in the UK by Gourmet Bu...

Health food -- of all things -- may have gotten in the way of a marriage of snack-food titans. PepsiCo Inc., the maker of Doritos and Pepsi-Cola, explored a merger with Nestlé SA in late spring, which would have created an immense global food concern w...

"Ondernemen is anticiperen. Je ogen en oren goed openhouden en goed geïnformeerd zijn", zegt Hein Deprez, de topman van het Belgische groente- en fruitconcern Univeg. Dat het succes van Univeg en de recente overname van de Henegouwse aardappe...

NFU President Peter Kendall has welcomed the move by Walkers Snackfoods, which is a reaction to customer comments on the sourcing of its ingredients. Reducing the company's food miles and carbon footprint was also part of the decision. Peter Kendall sa...

A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps. The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in Aberdeen when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popu...

Amflora potatoes, likely to become the first genetically modified crop in the past decade to be approved for growth in Europe, have become the unlikely poster child in the angry debate over such products on the Continent. The European Commission now s...

Snack-maker Frito-Lay says it will investigate what it is calling an "unsubstantiated claim"that a man found a deep-fried mouse in a bag of barbecue potato chips.Frito-Lay, which is owned by PepsiCo, was sending a representative to retrieve t...

Chain restaurants in Seattle and other parts of Washington’s King County would be required to post nutrition information on menus and menu boards as of Aug. 1, 2008 under a law approved Thursday by the county Board of Health. The nation’s second menu-...

Think of Dairy Queen and ice cream likely comes to mind. The company has put a different spin on that image with a “fast casual” restaurant format called DQ Grill &Chill, selling ice cream and menu items like flame-grilled burgers, turkey sandwiche...