Key Points
Senators have urged officials of US Department of Agriculture to resist the temptation to label potatoes as grains...
In an unexpected twist on Capitol Hill, a formidable coalition of American Senators, spanning both Republican and Democratic parties, has taken a bold stand against a controversial proposal: reclassifying the potato as a grain..
The great American vegetable and grain debate has reached a boiling point, as stakeholders grapple with whether the humble potato should be rebranded from vegetable to grain..
In a sharply worded letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the bipartisan group of 14 Senators declared, "The scientific basis for claiming potatoes are not vegetables is as thin as a potato chip..
Under the National School Breakfast and National School Lunch Programs, schools already struggle to meet vegetable consumption recommendations at a reasonable cost, and potatoes are often the most affordable vegetable, the Senators added...
