potatoes
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Hot Potatoes
Kazunori Hironaka and his team at Obihiro University in Hokkaido, Japan, have found that treating potatoes with ultrasound or electricity for five to 30 minutes increased the amounts of antioxidants, including phenols and chlorogenic acid, by as muc…
potatoes | 01 October 2010
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China Essence Group confident of expansion
The management of China Essence Group has assured its investors that it has enough cash to meet the working capital requirements, which is primarily for the purchase of potatoes for the production of potato starch during the harvest season in August …
potatoes | 11 May 2010
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New Zealand potatoes attract industry attention
Potato eaters in New Zealand have eaten the nation’s number one cultivar bred by scientists at Plant & Food Research. The organization says more moonlight potatoes are grown than any other potato in the country and about five million of them are …
potatoes | 05 April 2010
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Key Technology introduces whole potato sorting system
Key Technology introduces its first optical sorting system Optyx WPS for whole potatoes. It provides a three-way sort using a combination of air ejectors to remove foreign materials (FMs) and a unique deflector system to separate potatoes for rewo…
potatoes | 01 June 2009
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Kemin Health wins top weight management award
At Ingredientes Adelgazantes España 2008, the conference's only award, “Most Innovative Slimming Ingredient," was presented to Isabel Farinha, Kemin Health Global Marketing Manager. The conference held in October 2-3, brought together leading int…
potatoes | 24 October 2008
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Soaking potatoes in water before frying reduces acrylamide
Good news for chips lovers everywhere—research in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture shows that pre-soaking potatoes in water before frying can reduce levels of acrylamide. Acrylamide is a naturally-occurring chemical that occurs when…
potatoes | 01 April 2008
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Potatoes with extra iodine
Iodine is a nutrient that is absorbed by potato plants through their leaves during tuber growth. As an essential nutrient in the production of thyroid hormones in the human body, it plays a part in controlling metabolism, physical growth and other vi…
potatoes | 01 January 2008
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Dehydrated Potatoes: Food Function Advances
Discover how dried potato products are enhancing everything from baked goods, to frozen foods, to snacks.
potatoes | 01 November 2005
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Fry Potatoes Better With Silicon Chips
Computer simulation saved an equipment maker hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by predicting and overcoming uneven oil distribution in potato fryers Uneven distribution of oil in the large fryers used in food processing causes problems. The…
potatoes | 01 January 2005
