Fruits & Vegetables

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Fruits & Vegetables Aug 30,2010

Scientists Trace the Genetic History of the Apple

The availability of a genome sequence for apple will allow scientists to more rapidly identify which genes provide desirable characteristics to the fruit and which genes and gene variants provide disease or drought resistance to the plant.

Fruits & Vegetables Aug 25,2010

Ocean Spray Launches Fruit Sweetened Dried Cranberries

Fruit Sweetened Dried Cranberries are produced from superior grade cranberries. The SDCs are dried to a specific moisture specification, depending on the characteristics desired.

Fruits & Vegetables Aug 10,2010

Salads Offer Seasonal Taste in Innovative Natursave Packaging

A better salad needs a better package, so Fresh Express developed its breakthrough Natursave bag, which recently won a 2010 Packaging Innovation award from the United Fresh Produce Association.

Fruits & Vegetables Jul 30,2010

China Nutrifruit Completes Technological Upgrades to its Fruit Concentrate Production Lines

As part of technological upgrades, China Nutrifruit installed additional equipment and implemented advanced production techniques at the Company's facilities in Daqing and Mu Dan Jiang.

Fruits & Vegetables Jul 21,2010

China Nutrifruit Provides Updates on Fruit and Vegetable Powder Product Development

The Company's R&D team has developed a wide variety of over twenty powder products, including pumpkin, potato, crab apple, celery, carrot, onion, cucumber, green beans and cilantro.

Fruits & Vegetables Jul 12,2010

Longer Shelf-Life for Ready-to-Eat Pomegranate

To help suppliers and retailers achieve optimal long-lasting shelf life of peeled pomegranate, Hefestus can also pack the fruit using Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) via a new, patented method of sealing trays called SLB – Shelf Life Booster.

Fruits & Vegetables Jul 12,2010

Red Hot Chili Peppers Arrive in Sub-Zero Arctic Seed Vault

The so-called "doomsday" seed vault now contains seeds of more than 525,000 crop varieties, making it the most diverse assemblage of crop diversity amassed anywhere in the world. Overall, this week's deposit consists of a total of 537 varieties of 13 crops.

Fruits & Vegetables Jul 08,2010

EU-Funded Food Research Results Showcased at European Parliament

One project, ISAFRUIT, has found that eating two apples (300gr) a day can help reduce cholesterol by 10% and that dipping apples and peaches in hot water at precise temperatures can reduce brown rot by 80% and remove e-coli and salmonella bacteria.

Fruits & Vegetables Jun 30,2010

SunOpta Signs Exclusive Agreements for the Marketing and Distribution of Garden Green Garbanzo

SunOpta has been working with Clearwater Country Foods for approximately eighteen months and during that time has completed an extensive market analysis assessing the potential of the sustainable and healthy green garbanzo.

Fruits & Vegetables Jun 22,2010

Seneca Foods to Acquire Unilink, LLC and Lebanon Valley Cold Storage, LP

Our company will fit well into the Seneca Foods structure and we believe both companies will benefit from the relationship,” stated Gary Gregory, Unilink, LLC’s President.

Fruits & Vegetables Jun 21,2010

ONE Bio Signs Supermarket Chains Expanding Its Organic Vegetable Business

ONE's organic products division has just signed new lucrative distribution agreements which will result in more rapid expansion into the retail environment in mainland China.

Fruits & Vegetables Jun 16,2010

EDV Packaging Moves One Step Forward in Sustainable Packages

EDV Packaging coextrudes the PS/EVOH/PE multilayer material in its production plant in Llinars del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.

Fruits & Vegetables Jun 04,2010

ARS Scientists Seek Blight-Resistant Potatoes

In Aberdeen, Idaho, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists Rich Novy and Jonathan Whitworth are taking on the late-blight fungus, Phytophthora infestans, best known for its role in the Irish potato famine of 1845.

Fruits & Vegetables May 28,2010

Calavo Growers, Inc. Enters into Long-Term Packaging Materials Agreement with Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation

The Meta Tray-8 design has proven to be stronger than anything we’ve seen on the market, protecting the product during ripening and downstream during transportation and handling.

Fruits & Vegetables May 26,2010

Raw Alfalfa Sprouts Linked to Salmonella Outbreak in 10 States

The FDA is urging consumers and restaurant and delicatessen operators to not purchase, eat or use raw sprouts from Caldwell Fresh Foods. The sprouts should be returned to the place of purchase for a refund and disposal.

Fruits & Vegetables May 20,2010

Sustainable and Compostable: Bioplastics for Deep Freeze Packaging

This film has a very appealing gloss surface together with great strength and chemical resistance along with demonstrating good barrier properties for a bioplastics.

Fruits & Vegetables May 20,2010

New Methods Developed to Detect, Measure Potato Phytonutrients

Their analysis of phytonutrients known as phenolics showed concentrations that ranged from 100 to more than 1,500 milligrams per 100 grams dry weight in the potatoes.

Fruits & Vegetables May 04,2010

Low-Maintenance Strawberry May be Good Crop to Grow in Space

Seascape strawberries are day-neutral, meaning they aren't sensitive to the length of available daylight to flower. Seascape was tested with as much as 20 hours of daylight and as little as 10 hours.

Fruits & Vegetables May 03,2010

Polypropylene Excellence is Now Even Clearer

The new material has been developed to bring high clarity and natural gloss to the packaging of chilled convenience foods and microwaveable ready meals.

Fruits & Vegetables Apr 28,2010

Crown Helps Polaner Boost Premium Appeal in "Jam-Packed" Category

To maximize real estate for branding, Crown has printed product information around the skirt of the closure, alerting consumers that the fruit spreads are a good source of fiber and contain no high fructose corn syrup.

Fruits & Vegetables Apr 26,2010

EFSA Evaluates Possible Risks from the Pesticide Chlormequat in Grapes

In a statement published, EFSA’s experts say that if the concentration of chlormequat on grapes does not exceed the threshold of 1.06 milligrams per kilogram, it is not likely to pose a short-term risk for public health.

Fruits & Vegetables Apr 22,2010

First Ever Biodegradable Bag for Frozen Fruits and Vegetables Introduced by Oregon's Stahlbush Island Farms

Stahlbush and Cadillac Products Packaging Company believe packaging like the BioBag should become the norm, not the exception, in the frozen fruit and vegetable industry.

Fruits & Vegetables Apr 21,2010

Volcanic Ash Cloud Hitting Fruit and Vegetable Imports, Warns Freight Transport Association

High value products and those with a short shelf-life – from green beans and fish to important vaccines – rely on air freight services as the only viable means of transport.

Fruits & Vegetables Apr 21,2010

Ocean Spray Appoints Klass Ingredients as Sole Canadian Ingredients Broker

The companies’ longstanding partnership dates as far back as the 1980’s, meaning Klass Ingredients Canada is strongly positioned to promote Ocean Spray’s values of technical application excellence and high quality ingredients.

Fruits & Vegetables Apr 15,2010

Onion Shows Potential as Natural Alternative to Artificial Preservatives

The study shows that the flavonoids of onion, in addition to having beneficial properties for health, increase the life of foods, and so "they are a natural alternative to artificial additives used in the food industry.

Jan-Paul Back, Loders Croklaan

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