It sounds as if cooking is borrowing a term from the music world. In this case, Cilantro Potato Salad is a tasty and nutritious creation containing about 180 calories and only 3.5 grams of fat per serving, if you use nonfat yogurt. Since potatoes are a good source of vitamin C, a serving also provides about 60 percent of the daily recommendation. Potato skins provide valuable fiber as well as vitamins and minerals. If you add the optional pepper slices, you'll increase the vitamin C content with only a negligible effect on the caloric content.
Salads are often in the spotlight when it comes to consumers' concerns about food safety.
Actually, other foods such as roast beef, ham, turkey and even cooked rice are linked with more foodborne illness outbreaks than salads. Commercial mayonnaise is not to blame when it comes to food safety issues, as is commonly believed. In fact, mayonnaise is acidic and does not support the growth of bacteria. The reason behind the headlines about salads and outbreaks of foodborne illness involves the amount of handling that goes into salad preparation and the effect of adding other ingredients, which dilute the protective effect of the acid in mayonnaise. If you're preparing the salad yourself, be sure to thoroughly wash your hands and use clean utensils.