All Fresh produce articles – Page 155
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Healthy Start for new food voucher scheme
Greengrocers are set to grab a share of a £129m a year windfall, thanks to a government initiative. Healthy Start is a Department of Health scheme that gives families vouchers to spend on milk and, for the first time, fruit and...
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Walkers challenged over 'wet' potatoes
Potato growers are angry about a Carbon Trust report that says they add water to their spuds. The trust's Carbon Footprints in the Supply Chain looked at how PepsiCo sources and processes potatoes for Walkers crisps. It concluded the...
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Iconic brand bows to state health pressure
Heinz is responding to calls for healthier product formulations with a reduced salt and sugar variant of its iconic tomato ketchup. Due to hit shelves at the beginning of the new year and timed to coincide with healthy eating resolutions,...
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In Brief: Fruit market 'soft'; Food safety scandal; Growing anxiety
Fruit market 'soft' Growth is slowing in the £250m-a-year soft fruit industry and growers must work harder to excite consumers, according to Nick Marston, MD of KG Fruits. More research was needed, he said. Food safety...
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Asda starts a drive to reduce air miles
Asda is offering bagged potatoes that make a virtue of their local origins. All 79 of its eastern counties stores started stocking East Anglian new potatoes in late October. They will be available into next year and then from June...
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In the can
Fruit. The few remaining Spanish canners have started to process the season's bumper mandarin orange crop. At 150,000 metric tonnes, it was nearly double last year's production. A high proportion of 2005's crop went into the fresh...
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Coca-Cola drink to prevent blood clots
Coca-Cola and Unilever are throwing their weights behind groundbreaking new products containing an ingredient said to help prevent blood clots.Coca-Cola plans to launch a mass-market drink containing the tomato-based ingredient...
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Price Survey
The retail cost of red seedless grapes has remained largely stable this week following the rise of 11.8% seen in last week's report. The only retailer to have increased the price of its 1kg punnet was Waitrose, which over the past seven...
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"If you pop into Tesco in Hungary, you can find strawberries piled up in pyramids. You'll never find those here"
I've got to admit I have a certain amount of sympathy with Ben Bradshaw's call to cut food and drink packaging. If it's not thick plastic wrapped around my broccoli, or pre-wrapped bananas, it's packets of tea with individually wrapped sachets....
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Chips to get pricier as potato volume drops
Chip prices could rise after Christmas as supplies of top quality frying potatoes become scarce, according to the British Potato Council. The long, hot summer and low rainfall stressed out the plants, cutting yields and increasing disease...
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Canaries fighting for share on two fronts
Canary Islands tomato growers are fighting to defend their slice of the EU market - but in their eagerness to promote they have launched two unrelated and costly campaigns. They are key suppliers to the UK during the winter season, and...
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Fairtrade: more appeal than organic
Retailers focusing heavily on organics are failing to meet the growing demand for Fairtrade products - and are losing sales as a result, it has been claimed. A survey of 600 shoppers by juice maker Fruit Passion found 41% of shoppers made...
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Price Survey
A change in country of origin has sparked a dramatic increase in the price of red seedless grapes this week. The average price of a 1kg punnet has risen by an average of 11.8% with Tesco sporting the most significant increase of the six other...
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Sainsbury's plans fruit and veg roadshows
Store managers and consumers need more education about fresh produce, Sainsbury's says. The retailer claims it sells more fresh produce per customer than competitors, and is launching initiatives to keep it that way. Staff in the...
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JS brings in organic port for Christmas
Sainsbury's has joined the small list of retailers stocking an organic port that it believes will attract consumers to the category this Christmas. Fonseca Terra Prima Organic Reserve Port is made from organic grapes. Historically,...
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Tesco backing S&A in ongoing worker row
Tesco and Sainbury's are standing by soft fruit grower S&A as it clashes again with unions. The Herefordshire strawberry growing co-op came under the spotlight earlier in the year after the TGWU received complaints from 200 migrant...
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Heinz recalls toast toppers
Heinz has recalled a batch of its own brand chicken and mushroom toast toppers due to incorrect allergen labelling.The affected product is Heinz Chicken & Mushroom Toast Toppers, 128g, with a best before date of 01 2009.Meanwhile,...
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Stripy tiger tomato experiment is over
Tiger tomatoes - the small ones with stripes - are not what consumers want, according to developers at Israeli exporter Agrexco.The experiment with the tomato is now over, they admitted, although different formats of the striking striped...
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Trends & Developments
Supreme Petfoods has unveiled the latest additions to its small animal range - Russel Rabbit parsnip & beetroot and Gerty Guinea Pig carrot & cranberry gourmet products. In addition, it has two new lines for the Science Selective Range - Rat and...