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November 14, 2011
Functional Technologies Announces Next Generation Acrylamide-Preventing Yeast Technology
Functional Technologies Corp. is pleased to report the development of a third (3rd) generation of its proprietary acrylamide-preventing (AP) yeast platform, wherein various improvements made to the Company's original underlying AP technology have enabl...
October 31, 2011
United Arab Emirates turn to potatoes for food security
Abu Dhabi is planning to increase the production of potatoes as part of food security measures. This is in view of the fact that the storage life of potatoes can last as long as six to eight months and hence protect the country against possible food sh...
October 31, 2011
Tate & Lyle signs exclusive agreement for novel salt reduction technology
Tate &Lyle announces that it has signed an exclusive, worldwide license agreement with Eminate Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of The University of Nottingham, UK, for its novel salt reduction technology. The product, currently known as ‘SODA-LO®’,...
October 23, 2011
Wetenschappers werken aan verbeterde industrie-aardappelen
Onderzoekers aan de Universiteit van Wisconsin-Madison zijn gekozen om een nationale multi-institutionele poging tot kwaliteitsverbetering van verwerkte aardappels te leiden. Volgens de USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture is er door het ...
October 21, 2011
Hudson Institute: Better-for-you Foods more profitable
Last week, we at Hudson Institute issued a study titled 'Better-for-you Foods: It's Just Good Business.' We now have evidence that packaged food and beverage companies selling a higher percentage of better-for-you (BFY) products are doing better.
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October 19, 2011
AFFI applauds senate approval of Collins-Udall Amendment to block limit on Starchy vegetables in Schools
AFFI President and CEO Kraig R. Naasz issued the following statement today in support of an amendment to a Senate agriculture appropriations bill that blocks the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from limiting the amount of potatoes, corn, peas, li...
October 18, 2011
Senate votes for unlimited potatoes in schools
The Senate threw its support behind the potato Tuesday, voting to block an Obama administration proposal to limit the vegetable on school lunch lines. Agriculture Department rules proposed earlier this year aimed to reduce the amount of french fries i...
October 18, 2011
Senator Collins scores key victory to keep healthy vegetables in school meal program
In a major victory, the United States Senate tonight unanimously approved a bipartisan amendment, authored by Senator Susan Collins, to the Fiscal Year 2012 Senate Agriculture Appropriations bill that would protect the flexibility of schools to serve h...
October 17, 2011
University of Wisconsin to lead research effort to reduce acrylamide in potato products
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have been selected to lead a national, multi-institution effort to improve the quality and safety of processed potatoes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) ...October 17, 2011
US Potato politics: The potato wars
Sen. Susan Collins is a more gentle soul than your typical Republican Steering Committee regular, but there she was in the Capitol last week: Ms. Maine Moderate lunching with the “Sons of Jesse Helms” — all in the name of the potato. It was a jaw-drop...
October 12, 2011
High GI cooked potatoes no problem as part of a meal
Potatoes and other reportedly high-GI foods might not be the dietary villains that recent publicity, books and health-based programmes would claim them to be, a new University of Otago study suggests.
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October 09, 2011
Kids expect familiar snacks to be more filling
New research, led by psychologists at the University of Bristol, has found that children who are familiar with a snack food will expect it to be more filling. This finding, published (online ahead of print) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutriti...October 09, 2011
Publicidad despierta apetito infantil por la comida chatarra
Los anuncios de comida tienen una potente influencia sobre las elecciones alimentarias de los niños, pero los padres pueden reducir ese efecto, según un estudio reciente. Incluyó a 75 niños entre los tres y los cinco años que vieron dos dibujos animad...October 06, 2011
Children's food choices are affected by both advertising and parental influence, suggests study
Directly advertising food items to children worries many parents and health care providers, and the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association have expressed concern about the negative impact of advertising on children's ...
October 05, 2011
NPC event intensifies pro-potato pressure
Doris Demers, the nutrition program director for York and Kittery schools, had a blunt response today when asked about proposed federal guidelines limiting white potato servings as part of the federally funded school lunch program. "It's ridiculo...
October 02, 2011
Wash your vegetables! Your potatoes too...
Soil stuck on leeks and potatoes may have been the source of an E. coli outbreak in the UK earlier this year, according to the Health Protection Agency (HPA).October 01, 2011
Denmark institutes fat tax
Denmark is to introduce one of the world’s first-ever “fat taxes,” in a pioneering move to slim the country’s waistlines and combat heart disease. From this Saturday, the price of a pack of butter will soar by 50 cents, a bag of potato chips by 12 cen...