These briefs share the findings from the USDA School Food Preparation Study.

The Annual Survey of School Food Authorities: School Year 2024-25 report includes findings from the fourth survey in this series on SFA supply chain disruptions.

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) Child Care Providers study has four parts that build upon one another to give us varied information about child care provider participation in the program.

This study examined non-congregate meal service in the USDA summer meal programs, 2023 to 2024.

We regularly collect information about the school meal programs and how they operate from the people who know best – the state agencies that oversee the programs in each state and territory and the school food authorities that manage the programs locally in one or more schools. 

This study is a follow-up to the 2024 Alternative Approaches to Reevaluating the Thrifty Food Plan report and implements the alternative approaches in a series of test cases to provide detailed information on the feasibility of each option.

The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee conducted 28 systematic reviews with support from USDA’s Nutrition Evidence Systematic Review branch within the Food and Nutrition Service, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.

The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee conducted Food Pattern Modeling analyses across 12 protocols with support from staff from USDA’s Nutrition and Economic Analysis Branch within the Food and Nutrition Service, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.

This report, the latest in an annual series, presents 2023 national and state-level estimates of the number of people eligible to receive benefits provided through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children and the percentage of the eligible population and the general U.S. population participating in the program.