Americans ate 46 pounds of fresh potatoes a year in the early 2000s. How many pounds do they eat now?

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Americans now eat 28 pounds of fresh potatoes a year, down from 46 in the early 2000s. While fresh potato eating dropped by 18 pounds per person, frozen potatoes barely budged. Today, Americans eat 58 pounds of frozen potatoes a year — mostly french fries — more than double what they eat fresh.

Americans eat 28 pounds of fresh potatoes a year. They eat 58 pounds of frozen ones, mostly fries.

Source: USDA Economic Research Service · checked Sep 2025