On another message board I asked, why do they put a nutrition label on potato chips LOL? Because it's a vegetable? They said, well, yes. Actually potato chips arguably are a vegetable. The FDA puts a label on it because they want you to determine for yourself. Whether it is healthy and/or nutritious. Actually, some people say that potato chips aren't healthy. But they are nutritious. They are high in Potassium, Vitamin C and fiber. Ironically in the 1980's it was revealed. Cottage cheese is not very healthy. People thought it was. They often serve it in places like hospitals. But it's very high in sodium and fat. It's literally got more sodium in it than a serving of potato chips, ironically. They had a joke in the 80's. The Reagan administration classified catsup as a vegetable in public schools. Jokes aside, the problem there is serving. Catsup is treated as a condiment by the FDA. So the amount they give is about 2 tablespoons. To use catsup as a serving of vegetables, you'd have to eat, I don't know, maybe a half a cup. Michael J. Fox joked when he first came to the United States, he'd go to fast places and ask for just a serving of hot water. Then put a bunch of catsup packets in and call it tomato soup. Ironically, and again, jokes aside, he might have been right. If you served it that way, it might have enough tomato in it to count as a vegetable. Plus people would be more likely to eat it. (People don't usually eat a bowl of catsup.) Some people think that vegetables should only be fresh. Again, on that other message board, not according to the FDA. Anything canned, frozen, or even something like potato chips like I said, would give you one serving of vegetables that day. But my doctor recently told me fresh is preferred. But you can't eat fresh vegetables all day long. And plus I think fresh vegetables are harder for your body to digest.
My opinion is that Potato Chips are a prepared product, not a vegetable. Chip Ingredients include potato flour, salt, vegetable oil and spices. A baked potato is a baked version of a root vegetable. Vegetables should have some resemblance to the original part of the plant.
Nutrition labels go on processed foods. not foods in their natural state. potato chips will never be a “serving of vegetables” because they are a serving of added fat.
In Mexico and most other countries, warning nutrition labels are standard and right on the front of the package in big letters and numbers, not a 2pt typeface you can't read on the back.
