All Fresh produce articles – Page 157
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Big drive for Tenderstem
A branded broccoli variety is being given national marketing exposure this month to help establish it as an attractive alternative to standard brassica crops. Tenderstem will be featured in consumer newspapers and lifestyle...
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Cool cocktail mixer is a breath of fresh air
A product that does away with the need to have fresh fruit on standby for making a gin & tonic or cocktails has been developed by new company Frecco. It produces individually packaged ice cubes made from mineral water, fruit juice and...
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"The ideal ambassadors for promoting a healthy lifestyle? Our sporting heroes, of course"
That was easy, then. A TV ad featuring Frank Lampard shows the Chelsea and England midfielder playing keepie-uppie with a cauliflower, and sales of the nobbly vegetable double overnight. Need to boost sales of fruit? Get Freddie Flintoff...
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Talking shop
It's time to reconnect the link between producers and wholesale markets, says Helen Evans, communications manager at Covent Garden Market Authority. I challenge any visitor walking through New Covent Garden Market's Buyers Walk not to be...
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Mayan Gold potato is like 'history on a plate'
A potato billed as the first entirely new variety to arrive in the UK for 400 years has been launched by UK grower Greenvale. It is a very close relative of the spud first brought to England during the reign of Elizabeth I, which is...
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Milk Marque gets into health foods
Milk Marque's 12,000 British farmer shareholders are the new owners of a health food company selling dried fruit, nuts and seeds. Community Foods was purchased this week by Milk Marque, the shell of the former dairy co-operative that...
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Go bananas for Caribbean fruits
A decade ago, two-thirds of the bananas we ate in Britain came from the Caribbean, notably the Windward Islands of Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada. Now sales have been whittled away to less than 10% as cheaper fruits from the...
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English apples set for bumper sales season
It is shaping up to be a bumper year for British apples, as supermarkets report the fruit is flying off the shelves. Asda claimed it was the first of the multiples to offer English apples from this year's harvest by getting Cox's on the...
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Smoothies war hotting up in the freezer aisles
Taking on the likes of Innocent and PJs, King Parrot Foods has put smoothies in the freezer aisle. The new company has come up with an original concept - a single pouch ?of individually quick-frozen (IQF) fruit, low-fat yoghurt and...
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More extras join special cast
Forget the recent baked beans wars that have stolen many a tabloid headline during the past six months. Or the rise of Omega-3 products that are now cropping up across all areas of the market. If you want a category in which there has been,...
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Banana producers in appeal to EU buyers
Banana producers in the Windward Islands have staked a claim to a larger share of the EU's lucrative banana trade. They want buyers at UK multiples to stock more of their fruit to ensure the survival of the islands' primary industry and...
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In Brief: SA so sweet on Israel; Bananas are boosted; All washed up
SA so sweet on Israel South Africa is using Israeli technology to develop a Sharon fruit industry aimed at the EU market. Production of the persimmon-style fruit in the Cape has reached 4,000 tonnes a year and should rise by 50%...
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Pesticide residue levels unsafe
Pesticide residue levels in foods are unsafe, the Pesticide Action Network has claimed.In a survey, the Network found that more than 5% of fruit, vegetables and other foods had pesticide residues that posed “appreciable” health risks to...
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The supplier's view
There's no doubt about it - consumers love pickled onions. Recent research shows that consumers talk passionately about their love for pickled vegetables and particularly pickled onions. But, perversely, this is in contrast to the current market...
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insight
In the past year there were 560 million meal occasions where canned tomatoes were eaten, up 4% year on year 17% of meals featuring them take place on Saturday Canned tomatoes are eaten most frequently as part of a fried breakfast...
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Scots potato plan fails to hit dietary targets
Scots are eating 25% less potato than they did 10 years ago, causing concern among nutritionists and politicians alike. The findings were published last week in a review of Scotland's Dietary Action Plan, chaired by Tim Lang, who declared...
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Tozer rises to meet demand for gourds
Booming sales of novel gourds and pumpkins should not lead to empty shelves this year, according to the company that supplies much of the seed to growers in the sector. Technologist Jim Joby at Tozer Seeds told The Grocer that the company...
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Second opinion The crisis presented by the poor Scottish diet has serious lessons for the future of the whole UK food industry says Tim Lang
I have spent the last year chairing an official governmental review of Scotland's diet and health, published last week. It takes a sober look at what everyone is and is not doing to address Scotland's poor diet-related ill-health. Jokes...
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Salad condiments
Sales in the salad condiments sector, including salad cream, mayonnaise and salad dressings, have been stagnant, up only 0.3%, as companies struggle to add value to what is traditionally a low-margin category. Yet despite slow growth, the...