Better to label potato as staple, not vegetable

ARE POTATOES A VEGETABLE OR STAPLE? The Ministry of Agriculture announced at a recent symposium its strategy to promote potato cultivation and popularize it as a food staple. Comments:

With balanced nutrition and high productivity potatoes are an ideal food for people in today's world. But Chinese people have always treated potato as just a vegetable, instead of a staple. With the marriage of traditional and Western-style food over the past decade, this is the right time to encourage people to accept potatoes as a substitute for grains.

ntv.cn, Jan 7