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The potato was domesticated together with sweet potato and other Andean crops, possibly up to 7000 years ago, although the natives of South America had already been eating the wild potatoes for ...

Twenty potato growers from all over the Wisconsin converged on Madison last week for their annual “grill the professors” ritual. They came from Eagle River to Spring Green and Coloma to Plover ...

For the first time, Potato Expo 2016, the largest conference and trade show for the potato industry in North America, will host a food truck chef competition highlighting the broad appeal of ...

"Do you want fries with that?" is the question that prompts us to think about potatoes. But there is so much more to potatoes as visitors to The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair ...

The eighth annual Kiremko Nacht van Woerden event took place in the Woerden city centre on October 20 this year. Prior to this event, Kiremko and alongside company’s strategic partners organized their ...

A universe of 126 varieties of potatoes is being planted on a property, owned by the municipality of Puqueldón, with the aim of creating a living museum of this type of tuber, ...

Fast food lovers can now consider shifting up a gear thanks to the creation of a completely automated French fry vending machine. The designers of this machine are a start-up company from ...

Product perfection starts before the processing. It is maintained in the processing plant but only evident when the customer is satisfied and buys more. Andre Erasmus looks at some of the people who ensure ...

When it comes to drying potatoes, regardless of the type of end product one may have in mind, there is always some downtime to be taken into account due to routine maintenance, cleaning and breakdown ...

Production of frozen products, especially French fries, needs to be meticulous to end up with the perfect fry. This includes defect and foreign matter removal and naturally, trouble-free freezing if the end-user is to ...

McCain Australia has recently launched the new wedges ‘Chorizo and Caramelised Onion’ and ‘Samosa’ flavours. The Samosa wedges consist of the potato wedge with a flavor mix of coriander, cumin, turmeric and ...

It’s all about quality and efficiency of production so all potato processors know that their end user wants a good tuber with little foreign matter. And this is where a good de-stoner ...

Uganda has registered a first value addition factory, being the first in potato processing not only in the country, but also in the region. The processing plant built cost more than USD 10 ...

What began with one man’s invention more than 100 years ago turned into a company that today sells equipment in 120 countries around the world. That is the story of Urschel Laboratories ...

Lamb Weston / Meijer, a joint venture between US-based ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston and Netherlands-based Meijer Frozen Food, recently announced plans to invest approximately USD150 million (EUR 120 million) to expand its frozen potato facility in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands.  This ...

ConAgra Foods Inc.(CAG), one of North America’s largest packaged food companies,joined with local and regional government dignitaries to celebrate the grand opening of its Lamb Weston potato processing facility in Shangdu, Inner Mongolia. ...

McDonald’s announced that it will open restaurants in Kazakhstan in 2015, in conjunction with a local developmental licensee, Kairat Boranbayev.  Kazakhstan will be 120th global market for McDonald’s. In the same time, it ...

The Lamina hydrocutting system is designed to cut large volumes of vegetable food products such as: French fries, carrot sticks, pickles, peppers, brussel sprouts, beets, apples, mangos, strawberries. Lamina was designed with ...

Precision is key when it comes to volume cutting of potatoes, whether for French fries, crinkle cut chips or diced and sliced. Around the world there are companies that specialise in cutting equipment ...

The American provider of solutions for food production Heat and Control has announced its latest equipments that will be exhibited at the international fair Snaxpo in March 1-4. The company’s latest equipment ...

Key Technology announces its new potato strips Sort-to-Grade feature for all belt-driven G6 optical sorters: Manta, Optyx, and Tegra. The feature was presented at the NWFPA exhibition in January. The patented, software-driven ...

Take the Baker Perkins Innovation Centre in Peterborough, UK, for example. As well as product development, customers use Baker Perkins’ Innovation Centre facilities to evaluate process technologies for existing products. This can ...

The number of people who prefer snacks rather than meals is increasing and producers are turning to consumers in order to develop new flavours and products. Evie Serventi reports. The biggest change ...

The better the peeling process, the better the potato and, possibly, the wastage can be reduced, too. But wastage is not everything, it’s the degree of cleanliness that is just as important. ...

Being so versatile, potatoes can be processed in numerous ways. Because health is an increasingly important factor regarding food choices, baked potatoes are a popular option. (Guest post) Fully automated chips making ...