Tag: Potato chips food group

While the humble potato is a vegetable, a significant Harvard study found that potato chips were the single biggest contributor to weight gain among the foods analyzed. This raises the common question: what food group do potato chips belong to? The answer is more complex than it appears, as the high processing, frying, and salting fundamentally change their nutritional profile, moving them out of the vegetable category and into the realm of processed junk food.