Tomato news archive – Page 96
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ArticleCook Bus visits STC
The Yorkshire Cook Bus made a stop at Stockbridge Technology Centre last week, with more than 100 pupils from the local area getting involved in both harvesting crops and cooking.
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Bumpkin veg added to line-up
Inspired by the enthusiastic response to its ‘ugly fruit’ range, launched in 2006, high-end retailer Waitrose has extended its range of Cook’s Ingredients to include ‘bumpkin veg’ - less than perfect vegetables and salads.
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Study: organics better for the heart
Organic produce is better for your heart, suggests a 10-year US study.
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ArticleThe menu shapers
As fruit and vegetables secure a higher profile on foodservice menus, companies supplying the sector face ever-growing demands and challenges. Many have adopted innovative practices to ensure their viability in the competitive marketplace. Doris Lee Butterworth talks to leading suppliers.
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Children lacking knowledge of 5-a-Day
The youth of today, we are reliably informed, will be the adults of tomorrow. So we should start packing our bags now, if the latest survey from Dairy Farmers of Britain is anything to go by.
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Positive moves for the future
The upcoming Year of Food and Farming is one of the most positive moves to be implemented for some time, aimed squarely as it
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ArticlePlum budding
The Spanish plum crop in the Badajoz province of Extremadura may have been reduced by as much as 40 per cent this season through hailstorms which have been so severe that they punched holes on the leaves of orchards. But David Shapley found a remarkably resilient level of confidence within the industry on a visit earlier this month.
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Food ‘Nobel prize’ goes to packager
A man who invented a way to store mass quantities of processed foods so they could be shipped and used at later dates has won the food equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
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ArticleAsda price cuts court controversy
Asda is courting controversy again with full-page ads for price cuts enraging growers and farmers. Its price cuts last week have sparked an all-out supermarket price war.
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ArticleGlobal BRC certification for Southampton
Southampton Fruit Handling Ltd has received the new BRC global standard certification for storage and distribution issued by SGS.
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Israeli organic growers turn to oxygen
Oxygen could be the preservative of choice for organic growers in the future, extending shelf lives, with no negative health side-effects.
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ArticleHail storms damage Spanish crops
Cherry and plum growers in the Extremadura region of Spain, to the west of Madrid, are counting the cost of hail storms, after looking forward to the prospect of bumper crops.
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ArticleBerry-sized tomatoes hit the shelves at Sainsbury's
Tomatoes the size of berries have been launched at Sainsbury’s this week.
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ArticleMorrisons makes renewed salad recall
Morrisons has recalled four of its own-brand, pre-packed salads.
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ArticlePink grapefruit more nutritious
Pink grapefruit juice has more nutritional benefits per calorie than other common fruit juices, a new study has found.
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Signum the brassica saviour
Vegetable growers know that producing high quality disease-free produce for the increasingly demanding retail sector is essential.
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Monsanto forms International Seed Group
Monsanto Company has formed International Seed Group, Inc (ISG), a holding company to invest in vegetable and fruit seed businesses with capital and technology investments.
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Produce enjoys pride of place
Any reports of breaches in food hygiene, such as those in-store failings unveiled recently by the national media, obviously
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ArticleCalifornian tomato worry
Californian agriculture officials have discovered a potentially devastating tomato virus, and are worried the disease will infect tomatoes in the rest of the state.
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ArticleCanary crop on song
The Canary Islands tomato season has closed slightly earlier than last season with a six per cent decline in volume, but better values than last year.