{"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’s Fries Healthy – Official"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on a little-noticed change to obscure federal rules, the USDA [now] defines frozen french fries as “fresh vegetables” … The USDA quietly changed the regulations last year at the behest of the french fry industry … 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":"

Based on a little-noticed change to obscure federal rules, the USDA [now] defines frozen french fries as “fresh vegetables” … The USDA quietly changed the regulations last year at the behest of the french...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t