The Dietary Pattern for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans serves as a flexible framework that supports cultural traditions, personal preferences, and different lifestyles to enable policymakers, programs, health professionals, and Americans at any stage of life customize and enjoy whole, healthy, and nutritious foods.
Team Nutrition provides MyPlate materials that are developed specifically for kids and their parents/caregivers. We also offer evidenced-based curricula that educators can use to integrate MyPlate lessons into core educational subjects, such as math, English language arts, and science.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is jointly issued and updated every 5 years by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Dietary Guidelines is used to inform the development of Federal food, nutrition, and health policies and programs and provides advice on healthy eating for the public.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 was released on Jan. 7, 2026. This is the 10th edition of the Dietary Guidelines.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans is jointly issued and updated every five years by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Dietary Guidelines is used to inform the development of federal food, nutrition, and health policies and programs and provides advice on healthy eating for the public.
In 2000, USDA initiated a comprehensive reassessment of the Food Guide Pyramid (FGP), which was originally released in 1992. USDA has provided food guidance to the American public for over 100 years, and the Pyramid is the current graphic representation of this guidance.