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... botulinum is therefore considered a major health hazard in minimally heated refrigerated foods, such as chilled ready meals

... willesden-based jamaican pattie manufacturer port royal has developed a new range of premium chilled ready meals targeting shoppers looking for more authentic caribbean cuisine ... "we did produce some ready meals for sainsbury’s a while ago, but it didn’t work out ... the buyers had an idea of what they thought jamaican meals should contain and we kept having to change the recipes until we ended up with some real monstrosities ... ” caribbean food the market for chilled caribbean food was starting to grow in uk supermarkets with the launch of floella benjamin’s caribbean kitchen range in 2008 and the recent launch of the levi roots brand (produced by kerry foods) into chilled meals earlier this year, he said ... “the target market for our meals is the caribbean community but also curious abc1s ... while port royal manufactures its own beef, chicken, lamb, saltfish and vegetarian patties, the meals will be manufactured by edmonton-based firm mrs gill’s kitchen on a contract basis, he said

... sales of chilled ready meals surged 8 ... the figures, which reflect the positive sentiments outlined in greencore’s summer trading statement, provide further evidence of a more favourable trading environment in ready meals following the big squeeze in 2008/9 as manufacturers closed a clutch of factories to tackle overcapacity and shoppers spurned the chillers for cheaper frozen meals, said shore capital analyst clive black ... northern foods, which has shut or mothballed three ready meals factories in the last three years after failing to agree mutually satisfactory terms with a key customer, also reported a 14% rise in underlying revenues in its chilled division in the 13 weeks to july 3 highlighting "continued steady improvement" in ready meals, he noted ... there was now a “more favourable balance between supply and demand” in ready meals manufacturing, while profitability in the sector was also “more robust”, added black

... the key food to go and prepared meals categories, in particular, continue to perform well ... we continue to record market share gains across our portfolio most particularly in uk chilled ready meals with our market share growing by a third to 10

... today’s busy lifestyles leave little time to prepare meals from fresh ingredients, resulting in the popularity of ready prepared meals ... however, these meals contain relatively high levels of salt and health agencies throughout the world are recommending a reduction in non-discretionary sodium from salt- and sodium-containing additives used in the manufacture of these meals ... a recent survey of salt levels in ready meals conducted by teagasc food research ashtown revealed that the average irish ready meal contained 71 per cent of the recommended dietary allowance (rda) for salt ... in fact, 58 out of the 67 ready meals surveyed contained 50 per cent or greater of the rda ... alternatives to salt in conjunction with the university of limerick (ul), and industrial partners dawn fresh foods and allinall ingredients ltd, researchers at teagasc food research ashtown are using herbs and spices as substitutes for flavour lost through the removal of salt from three popular chilled ready meals ... these spices, namely clove, sage, pimento, oregano, garlic and rosemary, were then incorporated into each of the three low salt meals at four different concentrations and their acceptability determined ... initial work at teagasc food research ashtown used a trained sensory panel to conduct flavour profile analysis of popular commercial ready meals and their low salt equivalents to identify flavour differences arising from salt reduction ... a final confirmation test was conducted comparing the most favoured spice combination with both the low and full salt meals to see how it performed in terms of overall acceptability ... benefits to industry “results from this study can be used to significantly reduce salt levels in ready meals without influencing consumer acceptability from a flavour viewpoint,” concluded dr brunton

... the family-owned business, which makes halal fresh, frozen and chilled ready meals and snacks for caterers from a facility in fulham road, birmingham, is moving into a new factory in the eastside development in birmingham in the autumn

... "premier foods manufactures across many food categories including bread, cakes, preserves, convenience foods, desserts, meat-free foods, cooking sauces, stocks, gravies, flour, chilled ready meals, meat pies and chilled desserts

... the move also follows the uk retailer's recent initiative to remove all artificial flavourings, artificial colourings and hydrogenated fats from all its chilled ready meals ... the company says that additive and hydrogenated fat-free ready meals have been in store since october ... "over the past few months we've gone back to the kitchen to make over 450 recipe changes to our ready meals to remove artificial colourings, artificial flavourings and hydrogenated fats and most of these lines have no artificial preservatives ... "having removed artificial colourings, artificial flavourings and hydrogenated fats from our ready meals, we are now actively working to remove hydrogenated fat from all our food products, including confectionery, by mid 2006 ... "we welcome the move by marks & spencer to remove additives from its ready meals and applaud its commitment to further remove all hydrogenated fats from its entire food range by mid 2006," said nick giovannelli, project director of hacsg

... the company's chilled and frozen food division continued to trade strongly, however, with a 8 per cent rise in sales during the period despite poor weather in the early part of the summer ... there was particularly strong performance in the sandwiches and chilled ready meals categories, both of which experienced growth of 16 per cent

... chilled ready meals and frozen convenience food showed little significant overall change, but a sharp increase among low incomefamilies