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三月 23, 2010
NASS: Frozen potato in storage down 7% compared to last year
The USDA NASS Cold Storage report released yesterday indicates there was a total of 1,106,521,000 pounds of frozen potato products in storage in the United States on February 28 2010. This is down 7% from last year and slightly up from the amount in s...
三月 19, 2010
McCain Foods USA recalls McCain All American Roaster frozen potato due to suspect pepper ingredient
McCain Foods USA today announced a voluntary recall of the McCain All American Roaster frozen potato product listed below which contains a pepper ingredient that could be contaminated with Salmonella. The recalled product contains black pepper which ...
三月 19, 2010
NYT blog: An easy way to make french fries
Quite some time ago, I wrote about cooking a beautifully seared, perfectly rare steak without filling your neighborhood with smoke . It’s time for the other shoe to drop: the french fries. In terms of outcome, there’s nothing wrong with cooking thes...
三月 10, 2010
The History and Future of GM Potatoes
Last week the European Commission approved cultivation and processing of the genetically modified starch potato Amflora. The request for authorisation was submitted by Amflora's developer BASF in August 1996, more than 13 years ago!In North America, currently no genetically modified potatoes are commercially grown. But the GM potato has already a colorful history in the US and Canada

三月 09, 2010
Exportaciones de papas procesadas congeladas de Estados Unidos a México han caído en un 50%
(...) John Keeling, vicepresidente ejecutivo del Consejo Nacional de la Papa, dijo a los periodistas que es "muy fácil"para los productores de papas fritas canadienses llenar la brecha luego que el mercado mexicano se cerró a los productores... Sponsored Content
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三月 08, 2010
New French Fries at Jack-in-the-box
French fry connoisseurs are a most discerning sort, perhaps even more so than their wine-tasting counterparts. Whereas wine aficionados practice five basic evaluations – color, swirl, smell, taste and savor – a true fries connoisseur also considers thi...
三月 04, 2010
Potato growers take McDonald's Pesticide survey
Farmers who grow potatoes that end up as french fries at McDonald's and other fast food restaurants have begun taking surveys about how they produce the crop.About a year ago, McDonald's bowed to pressure from activist shareholders and agreed to make a...
二月 27, 2010
Foodbanks benefit from Idaho Potato surplus
Food banks, charities and hungry people in Idaho are benefiting from a Idaho's surplus of potatoes.J.R. Simplot Co. donated 35,000 pounds of spuds Feb. 16 to the Idaho Foodbank and the Boise Rescue Mission."This is a tremendous donation,"he s...
二月 23, 2010
Oldest French Fry line in Conagra Foods Lamb Weston Twin Falls factory retires
ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston will shut down the oldest of its potato processing lines in its Twin Falls factory, affecting up to 120 employees. Employees were informed of the line closure Monday afternoon. Marti DeMoss, communications manager for ConAgra...
二月 21, 2010
No more 'Would you like fries with that'
It's time to bury that negative fast-food cliché, "Would you like fries with that?" In today's restaurant world, whether it's quick service or full service, operators are finding new ways to present and flavor fries, and customers are eating...
二月 17, 2010
USDA Revision: Potato Stocks Up 11 Percent From February 2009
The 13 major potato States held 203 million cwt of potatoes in storage February 1, 2010, up 11 percent from a year ago and 2 percent above February 1, 2008. Potatoes in storage accounted for 53 percent of the 2009 fall storage States' production, 3 per...
二月 16, 2010
ConAgra Foods Reaffirms Fiscal 2010 EPS Guidance and Long-Term EPS Growth Expectations
Today ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) will update the Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) on the company's progress and outlook at the CAGNY annual conference in Boca Raton, Fla. ConAgra Foods CEO Gary Rodkin, Consumer Foods President André Haw...
二月 08, 2010
First french fry contract settled in the US
Columbia Basin growers ratified a 2010 contract with Lamb-Weston last week. The editor of North American Potato Market News, Bruce Huffaker, reported that this was to be the second year of a two-year contract, which was indexed for production costs. Th...
二月 05, 2010
Grotere vooraad aardappelen in de Verenigde Staten
De voorraad aardappelen in de Verengde Staten van oogstjaar 2009 per 1 februari 2010 ligt volgens cijfers van het NAPMN (North American Potato Market News) maar liefst 12% hoger dan vorig seizoen rond dezelfde tijd. Totaal zou de actuele voorraad nu ui...
二月 04, 2010
US demand for Frozen Food Packaging in 2013 close to 7bn
Growing demand for convenience food and technical advances in packaging will be two of the main drivers behind US demand for frozen food packaging reaching almost $7bn in 2013, according to a new report.The research by US-based industry consultants Fre...
一月 19, 2010
Three French Fry manufacturing plants awarded EPA Energy Star
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing the first three frozen fried potato processing plants to earn the Energy Star for superior energy performance. These plants perform in the top 25 percent for energy efficiency nationwide an...
一月 19, 2010
Las papas fritas de los restaurantes de comida rápida de EE UU se cocinan con aceite de maíz
La mayoría de las patatas fritas de los restaurantes de comida rápida se cocinan con aceite de maíz, según un estudio elaborado por la Universidad de Hawai en Manoa (Estados Unidos) que se publica en la edición digital de la revista «Proceedings of the...