About Potatoes. Whether mashed, baked or roasted, people often consider potatoes as comfort food. It is an important food staple and the number one vegetable crop in the world. Potatoes are available year-round as they are harvested somewhere every month of the year. The potato belongs to the Solanaceae or nightshade family whose other members include tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and tomatillos.
The United States Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, Section 201, Chapter II defines processed food as: any food other than a raw agricultural commodity and includes any raw agricultural commodity that has been subject to processing, such as canning, cooking, freezing, dehydration, or milling. Examples of processing include: Roasting your freshly caught fish over a campfire.
6. Most Processed Foods Are Low in Nutrients. Processed foods often have the real nutrition processed right out, then sometimes added back in in the form of synthetic vitamins and minerals. These synthetics do not fool your body, however, and will not provide the whole, synergistic nutrition that eating whole food will.. Processed Foods Contain Artificial Ingredients. Processed foods may contain dozens of artificial chemicals that are in no way real food.. These include: 1  Preservatives. 2  Artificial colors. 3  Artificial flavors (the term artificial flavor on a label may include 10 or more chemicals).