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.