All Fresh produce articles – Page 192
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New ways with feta
With the Olympics in Athens due to start in just under one year, visitors to Anuga were treated to innovative snacks using one of Greece’s most popular products – feta cheese.Feta is best known for its central role in a Greek salad, but...
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Acquisition drive for CJ Lang
Stalled expansion plans by Scotland’s largest independent retailer look set to kick into action in the next few weeks, as a raft of new initiatives begin to bear fruit.Spar’s Scottish principal, CJ Lang, announced plans to double its...
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M&S: best tomatoes are British
British tomatoes are monopolising the shelves of Marks & Spencer because the store believes the fruit to be the best there is, according to its salad specialist Jim Monaghan.Speaking at the Tomato Conference in Coventry, Monaghan explained...
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apple price rise
The extremely hot temperature across Europe this year, while welcome to the soft drinks industry, will significantly impact on pricing of apple-based juice products for the next 12 months.The majority of apple for juicing, be it in...
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Storewatch
StorelocationRanked from cheapest full basket downwardsAsdaRobroyston, Glasgow£38.77Date of shopping trip: 19.09.03Time of trip: 15.31Time in store: 41 mins Time at checkout: 5 mins promotions: Potatoes reduced by 10p/kg, Walkers buy...
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Consumer Insight
When canned fruit is eatenn There were 640 million individual canned fruit meal occasions in the past yearn Canned fruit accounts for 6.6% of total fruit...
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Consumer Insight
What is eaten with oranges (% occasions)Oranges feature at 616.2 million meal occasions a year Children under 17 account for just 10% of all consumers, the smallest proportion of consumers Conversely, older...
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A weighty avocado
Tesco is gearing up to sell a two and a half pound avocado, eight times larger than the standard fruit.The retailer is stocking the South African avocado, which is grown naturally, and claims it is enough to feed a family of six.A...
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Kent goes on Asda shelves
Asda is stocking apples sourced locally in its 11 Kent stores following a successful trial with strawberries last year.The retailer is working with Kent County Council’s Produced in Kent initiative to promote the apples. The fruit will be...
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Archers extended into wine
Diageo is throwing its Archers schnapps brand into the wine arena with the launch of a new sparkling line.Archers Eden combines fruit schnapps and wine and comes in Berry Rosé and Citrus White variants.The 5% abv drink will be...
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Tango Apple goes active
Britvic is throwing its Tango Apple brand out into the streets as part of a £2m marketing push.The money is being ploughed into a Big Drench Roadshow initiative which will take place for three weeks from October 11.Visiting 12 major...
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Strathmore gains in Spain
Scottish-based frozen food manufacturer Strathmore Foods has secured its second listing in Spain – Blue Bell Bar Supplies, based in Benalmadena, Malaga. The group is stocking Strathmore’s Deep Apple Pie, Deep Rhubarb Pie, Lemon and Cream...
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PJs targets the lunchbox market
Juice and Smoothies specialist PJs is making a bid for the children’s lunchbox market with the launch of two additive-free fruit drinks called FrooOties.The move comes amid increasing concern for and media interest in the high sugar and salt...
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A French success
The growth of prepacked salads and increasing interest by the foodservice sector has lifted UK sales of French lambs lettuce from 500 tonnes to 700 tonnes last year, according to Pascal Poiron, marketing manager of the Loire Valley Comité...
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All adrift on supply
Our weekly shopping survey has come back with depleted shopping baskets in Northern Ireland. Does that indicate a problem with availability? Anne Bruce looks for an explanationGiven Ireland’s associations with the potato, you would...
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Reef gets big
Coors is to introduce a bigger bottle to its alcoholic fruit range Reef.The new Orange & Passionfruit 700ml bottles will be part of a £9.5m spend to boost the brand. Brand director for Reef, Warren Langley, hoped the range would...
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Kellogg puts on a Spurter
Kellogg is continuing its campaign to dominate the fruit snacks market with the arrival of Screamin’ Fruit Spurters.The fruit shapes, which come in single and multipack bags of assorted orange, strawberry, blackcurrant and apple varieties,...
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Sainsbury ad for fruit ‘not misleading’
Watchdogs have dismissed claims that a Sainsbury poster implied its strawberries were picked in the morning and sent straight to its supermarkets. The poster stated: “Our strawberries travel from field to store in less than a day and are...
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A hi-tech squeeze
A technology specialist is claiming success following consumer tests of its innovative equipment.Sinclair IQ had conducted the tests on its SIQ-FT machine, a high speed machine that is designed to measure the firmness of individual fruit. ...
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US hails excellent apple quality
The latest US apple estimates were made available this week and described as average in quantity but excellent in quality.The figures were based on both the assessment of the industry itself as well as the official figures from the...