The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s examination of which foods make up a healthy diet has the potato industry worried that the legendary spud will lose its status as a vegetable and thus a favored position in federal nutrition programs.
Potatoes rule U.S. dining tables, mostly in processed forms. Upcoming U.S. dietary guidelines could reclassify them - but the industry has long fought such a change.
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