Dehydrated Potatoes

 Good old American work ethic and goodwill combine to help feed the hungry…this time it’s the potato producers. You’ve probably all heard some portion of the message engraved on the Statue of Liberty…part of it reads: "Give me your tired, your poor, ?Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, ?The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. ?Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me”

Yup! That’s what America preaches and practices as well. Eastern Idaho was the venue recently where the U.S. Potato Board gathered with several international food aid organizations. The group was looking at the potential for delivering dehydrated potatoes to the hungry of the world.

“They have a mixture of dehydrated potatoes and soy protein and corn maze to make a very high protein and carbohydrate drink that they sell to global feeding organizations, NGO’s” That’s Jerry Wright of the United Potato Growers of Idaho discussing the fact that dehydrated potatoes can be re-hydrated with a variety of different liquids from goats milk to breast milk in an effort to produce a highly nutritious food that’s loaded with micro-nutrients. Wright also suggested that potato producers do not make heavy profits, if any, from these philanthropic efforts.