Potato fans rejoice as Ore-Ida makes exciting change to tater tots for first time in 20 years: ‘Buying these immediately’

Potato fans rejoice as Ore-Ida makes exciting change to tater tots for first time in 20 years: ‘Buying these immediately’

Ore-Ida is tapping into the nostalgia for fun food shapes and shareable food. The potato company is launching its first new Tater Tot shapes in nearly two decades, Dino Tater Tots and Star Tater Tots. Made with the same crispy outside and fluffy inside that fans know and love, the new shapes are permanent additions … Read more

Major potato chip brands issue recall over fears of Salmonella contamination

Major potato chip brands issue recall over fears of Salmonella contamination

A popular potato chip brand has issued a voluntary recall after a potential Salmonella risk. Utz Quality Foods LLC, a subsidiary of Pennsylvania-based Utz Brands Inc, recalled some varieties of its Zapp’s and Dirty potato chips due to a potential contamination linked to milk powder. The impact chips have seasoning that contained dry milk powder … Read more

Top skincare ingredient found in potato scraps could reshape industry, scientists say

Top skincare ingredient found in potato scraps could reshape  industry, scientists say

Move over, pricey serums — your next glow-up might come straight from a potato. Scientists at the University of Aberdeen are turning discarded potato stems and leaves, known as “shaws,” into high-value ingredients for skincare and cosmetics. Normally tossed after harvest, these humble scraps are now being tapped for solanesol, a key compound used in … Read more

Viral ‘potato bed’ trend is the newest trick for the best night’s rest

Viral ‘potato bed’ trend is the newest trick for the best night’s rest

Tucking yourself in like a smothered baked potato is the newest way to get a great night’s sleep. A TikTok trend called the “potato bed” has gone viral as a comfy way of rearranging sheets and pillows to be surrounded and snuggled. The first step is to lay out a fitted bedsheet upside down and stuff … Read more

Exclusive | I lost over 100 lbs. without skinny jabs — and I ate more potato chips in that time than I did my whole life

Exclusive | I lost over 100 lbs. without skinny jabs — and I ate more potato chips in that time than I did my whole life

How’s this for motivation: One professional chef managed to lose over 100 pounds the old fashioned way — that is, without Ozempic — all while building up her own potato chip business. Keya Wingfield dropped from 245 pounds to 138 pounds since 2021, simply by changing her diet and taking up two key exercises. In … Read more

Lay’s potato chips reveals largest redesign in brand’s history to align with ‘MAHA’ initiatives

Lay’s potato chips reveals largest redesign in brand’s history to align with ‘MAHA’ initiatives

PepsiCo’s Lay’s has become the latest in a series of household names that are redesigning their brand with a more modern edge. PepsiCo announced the “largest brand redesign in Lay’s nearly 100-year history” on Thursday on the heels of Domino’s revealing plans for its own rebranding attempt. But Lay’s isn’t just updating the look of … Read more

Keanu Reeves describes bloody kneecap injury on film set: Broke ‘like a potato chip’

Keanu Reeves describes bloody kneecap injury on film set: Broke ‘like a potato chip’

Rough go for Reeves. Keanu Reeves suffered a gruesome onset injury — and it shockingly wasn’t from an action film. The actor opened up about his “Good Fortune” accident in a Hollywood Reporter interview that published Wednesday. “I snapped my kneecap vertically, like a potato chip. As the pain was coming up, I was like, ‘Oh … Read more

Husband’s romantic gesture gone wrong: How one couple’s hotel bed became covered in potato chips

Husband’s romantic gesture gone wrong: How one couple’s hotel bed became covered in potato chips

A husband tried to surprise his wife with a romantic gesture only to discover their hotel bed covered in potato chips — after a miscommunication with staff. Rachel Norman, 36, and her husband Johnnie, 35, went out in Blackpool, Lancashire, to celebrate her birthday and he secretly asked hotel staff to put 30 assorted bags … Read more

If you’ve bought these gourmet potato chips, it may be time to collect your class-action payout

If you’ve bought these gourmet potato chips, it may be time to collect your class-action payout

Food label crusaders have come for Deep River Snacks. Customers who purchased Deep River potato chips labeled with “Non-GMO Ingredients” in the past eight years might be eligible for monetary payment from a class-action settlement. Old Lyme Gourmet Co., the parent company of Deep River Snacks, reached a settlement in a class action lawsuit that … Read more

I’m a gastroenterologist — here’s why I’ll never eat potato salad

I’m a gastroenterologist — here’s why I’ll never eat potato salad

Potato, potaht-no. A doctor’s surprise reveal that potato salad would never pass their lips is going viral — and the reason why is kind of gross. The anti-deli declaration came courtesy of a gastroenterologist at the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northern Ohio (AMCNO) in a TikTok video that’s been the talk of the internet this week. Doctors … Read more

McDonald’s started out selling hot dogs and potato chips — and other surprising fast food facts

McDonald’s started out selling hot dogs and potato chips — and other surprising fast food facts

Ray Kroc cut the ribbon on the first McDonald’s franchise, opened in Des Plaines, Ill., back in 1955 — and the rest is fast food history. But the McDonald’s story begins years before that — and halfway across the continent in Southern California, to boot. And did you know that the Big Mac wasn’t invented until 1967, … Read more

I have the world’s largest collection of empty potato chip bags — it started as a way to cope while my wife was dying of breast cancer

I have the world’s largest collection of empty potato chip bags — it started as a way to cope while my wife was dying of breast cancer

He’s cashing in his chips. A retired man who built the world’s largest-ever collection of empty potato chip wrappers says he’s finally reached the proverbial bottom of the bag — after pulling in an astonishing 24,000. Gary Key, of East Yorkshire, England, first embarked upon the thoroughly unusual pastime back in 2012 as a diversion after … Read more

Secret to healthier potato chips and french fries revealed in breakthrough study

Secret to healthier potato chips and french fries revealed in breakthrough study

Potato chips are technically made of vegetables — and soon they could be considered healthy-ish, too. Everything we know about spuds and the scrumptious snacks they yield could change after breakthrough food science findings published in the journal The Plant Cell, revealing the healthiest, most cost-effective and low-waste methods for storing and consuming starchy produce. … Read more

Ice cream and potato chips are just as addictive as cocaine or heroin: research

Ice cream and potato chips are just as addictive as cocaine or heroin: research

Can’t put down that bag of potato chips? Science says it’s not you, it’s the junk food. Ultra-processed foods, or UPFs, are just as addictive as nicotine, cocaine or heroin, experts say — and more than 1 in 10 people are hooked. A new analysis of 281 studies across 36 different countries has uncovered that … Read more

Company offers cash for couch potato willing to binge-watch all 10 ‘Fast and the Furious’ movies

Company offers cash for couch potato willing to binge-watch all 10 ‘Fast and the Furious’ movies

Fans of the “Fast and the Furious” movies have an opportunity to earn $1,000 by binge-watching all 10 of the movies in the series and tracking the crashes ahead of the release of the latest film in the franchise. FinanceBuzz, a website that offers informational tips and recommendations about money and things like car insurance, has … Read more

Apparently we’ve been using potato peelers wrong this whole time

Apparently we’ve been using potato peelers wrong this whole time

You know how kitchen gadgets were designed to make our life easier? Well, apparently one of the most common food tools – the humble potato peeler – hasn’t been used to its full potential. In fact, we’ve pretty much been using it incorrectly our whole lives.  That’s right. While you might have thought that your peeler was just ~a little … Read more

I painted my room with a potato — how the viral hack turned out

I painted my room with a potato — how the viral hack turned out

She’s no couch potato. One enterprising interior designer decided to test out a viral hack involving decorating her walls using a potato. While some were tater-ly impressed by her potato hack to paint her home, others were salty about the DIY project. In the 21-second clip, TikTok user @abbey.marie98 tried out the unlikely home decor … Read more

Can’t eat just one potato chip? Science says blame your genes

Can’t eat just one potato chip? Science says blame your genes

Turns out not being able stop after one chip is actually in your DNA. Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University uncovered a gene that has a strong correlation in preventing obesity. Lacking that gene can be detrimental towards one’s ability to not overeat, especially with greasy junk foods. The put-the-fork-down gene — CREB-Regulated Transcription Coactivator 1 … Read more

Meet the active couch potato: How sitting all day can erase a workout

Meet the active couch potato: How sitting all day can erase a workout

Are you an active couch potato? Take this two-question quiz to find out: Did you work out for 30 minutes today? Did you spend the rest of the day staring at your computer and then settle in front of the television at night? If you answered yes to both questions, then you meet the definition … Read more