6. Potato
The potato is one of the most recent additions to the list of examples of genetically modified foods with full explanations. Its use has been approved by the FDA only in 2015. Designed by J. R. Simplot Company, genetically modified potatoes offer several advantages, like resistance to blackspot bruising and browning, and containing less asparagine. This is significant because asparagine turns into Acrylamide during frying, which is suspected to be cancerogenic. So far, the largest potato consumer in the United States, McDonald’s, has decided against using the GM potato, despite the J. R. Simplot claims that in their engineering they have only used genes that are already present in potato and haven’t introduced any of the foreign ones.
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