Feds consider limiting potatoes offered to kids
Story Date: 10/21/2010

 

Source:  Shannon Dininny, ASSOCIATED PRESS, 10/20/10

Potato growers are fighting back against efforts to ban or limit potatoes in federal child nutrition programs, arguing the tuber is loaded with potassium and vitamin C and shouldn't be considered junk food.

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