Salads are soaring in popularity, and new concepts like grain salads are becoming important additions to foodservice menus. As restaurants, schools and non-commercial operations update menus to be more creative and healthful, salads of all kinds are meeting diners’ expectations for taste and nutrition in keeping with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which recommends eating more fruits, vegetables and grains, like rice. …
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is opening its first Market grocery store in the Northeast in Somerville, becoming the latest – and biggest – new competitor to try to shake up the once-staid supermarket scene in New England.
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Hundreds of volunteers showed up at the Stevens Point Municipal Airport this past weekend to pack about 200,000 servings of MannaPack Potato meals, developed by the non-profit Christian charitable organization, Feed My Starving Children. The Wisconsin Potato & Vegetable Growers Association sponsored the potato-meal packing event to help feed hungry children all over the globe. …
The Florida’s Natural Growers Board of Directors voted to donate $250,000 to fight citrus greening, a disease plaguing the Florida citrus industry. "As a Florida grower cooperative, it is important to combat this disease with every resource available. This support of The Citrus Research and Development Foundation and their efforts to battle citrus greening is vital to the long-term future of the Florida citrus industry," commented Steve Caruso, Florida’s Natural Growers CEO. …
Purfresh, a leading provider of clean technologies that purify, protect, and preserve the global food supply chain, today announced that apple growers around the world have experienced more than a 50 percent decrease in sun damage with the company's solar stress protectant — Purshade®. Apple crops treated with Purshade show increases in biomass production and improvements in crop quality characteristics, including size, color, and weight, resulting in fewer culls, and higher-quality, higher-value fruit. …
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