{"id":2034,"date":"2004-06-18T20:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-19T00:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2004-06-18T20:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-19T00:08:00","slug":"mcdonalds-fries-healthy-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/06\/18\/20\/08\/mcdonalds-fries-healthy-official\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s Fries Healthy &#8211; Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/local\/southflorida\/sfl-afries15jun15,0,202707.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines\">Based on a little-noticed change to obscure federal rules, the USDA [now] defines frozen french fries as &#8220;fresh vegetables&#8221; &#8230; The USDA quietly changed the regulations last year at the behest of the french fry industry &#8230; The Frozen Potato Products Institute appealed to the USDA in 2000 to change its definition of fresh produce under PACA to include batter-coated, frozen french fries, arguing that rolling potato slices in a starch coating, frying them and freezing them is the equivalent of waxing a cucumber or sweetening a strawberry.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a little-noticed change to obscure federal rules, the USDA [now] defines frozen french fries as &#8220;fresh vegetables&#8221; &#8230; The USDA quietly changed the regulations last year at the behest of the french&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}