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.
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: The examples of processing in the definition are sparse, but it is clear.ven the life food movement uses dehydration, freezing, and milling, and most adherents would claim that they don't eat processed foods. Interesting that the definition doesn't include things like fermentation or curing/pickling-unless those are included in the legal definition of cooking, which they may be.