Actively promote the exploration of potato as the main grain

The staple grain of potato is of great significance for ensuring food security, adjusting food structure and improving dietary nutrition in our country. Potato is an excellent crop with multiple characteristics such as grain and vegetables, which has the economic and social value of grain. Potato can provide rich carbohydrates, dietary fiber, minerals and B vitamins. It has the dual advantages of grains and vegetables, and has good food nutritional value. With the economic and social development and the improvement of people's living standards, the dietary structure and dietary patterns of Chinese residents are also undergoing historic changes. The organic combination of promoting the development of potato industry and improving the dietary structure of residents is not only conducive to the healthy, sustained and orderly development of the industry, but also of great significance to improve the nutritional status of residents and ensure food safety. The National Health and Family Planning Commission pays close attention to, attaches great importance to, and strongly supports research, exchanges and cooperation in this field.

The National Health and Family Planning Commission is mainly responsible for food safety, risk monitoring, risk assessment, formulation of food safety standards, safety review of new food raw materials, food additives and new varieties of food-related products. The National Health and Family Planning Commission will implement the requirements of comprehensively deepening reform, strengthen the transformation of functions, closely focus on serving people's health and food safety, clean up and integrate existing food-related standards, and improve the system of food safety standards. focus on strengthening the ability of risk monitoring and risk assessment, comprehensively perform their duties, and strive to consolidate the scientific foundation of food safety. The first is to improve the construction of food safety standards system. The second is to strengthen risk monitoring of food safety. The third is to continuously improve the ability of food safety risk assessment. Fourth, widely carry out food safety publicity and risk exchange work.

The National Health and Family Planning Commission pays close attention to the dietary nutrition of residents and promotes the rationalization of dietary structure. Promoting the staple food of potato and matching it with other foods can lead to a balanced diet and reasonable nutrition. Eating more vegetables, fruits and potato foods is in line with the dietary guidelines of food diversification in our country. The Dietary guidelines for Chinese residents recommend that the public regularly consume potato foods to obtain vitamins, minerals and dietary fiber, and to prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and various chronic diseases through a reasonable diet and lifestyle changes. Therefore, promoting the staple grain of potato is of great significance for improving food structure, nutritional structure and disease prevention.

Traditional Chinese medicine has a lot of research on health preservation, nutrition and food, and there are many introductions in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. Our ancestors once said that "Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs". By tasting all kinds of herbs, they tasted four kinds of things: first, they tasted what could be used as food; second, they tasted what could be grown as vegetables; third, they tasted both medicine and food; fourth, they tasted what kind of food could cure diseases.

Food safety and dietary nutrition are related to the health of the people and are major livelihood issues. The State Health and Family Planning Commission will use scientific thinking and the rule of law to continuously improve the work of food safety, and will continue to pay close attention to, attach importance to, and vigorously support the Ministry of Agriculture in "changing the mode, adjusting the structure, and promoting development." we will promote the exploration and promotion of potato staple grain.