Potato likely to maintain vegetable status

Potato likely to maintain vegetable status

The National Potato Council says comments made by Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack could set the tone for the potato’s future in the next Dietary Guidelines.

Mike Wenkel tells Brownfield a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators, led by Susan Collins of Maine, have been calling on the Secretary to keep potatoes classified as a vegetable.

“A reclassification of potatoes or interchangeability could have an impact on a multitude of different ways,” he says.

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