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Resource | Toolkits Eat Real Food Toolkit: Posters and Graphics

This toolkit has been developed to share key messages from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Posters and graphics are available for you to download and use with patients, clients and colleagues and share through social media. 

04/13/2026
Basic page Eat Real Food Toolkit

This toolkit has been developed to share key messages from the Dietary Guidelines for Americans including eat real food.

04/13/2026
Resource | Guidance Documents WIC Policy Memorandum #2026-4: Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 – Eat Real Food

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins strongly encourages WIC state agencies to familiarize themselves with the Guidelines and consider how the key recommendations can be incorporated into program operations to promote healthy outcomes and healthy families.

03/30/2026
Resource | Policy Modifying the FNS Instruction 113-1: Civil Rights Compliance and Enforcement - Nutrition Programs and Activities

This memorandum seeks to ensure that current Food and Nutrition Service guidance pertaining to federal civil rights and nondiscrimination obligations remains aligned with applicable laws, regulations, executive orders and directives relevant to the agency’s 16 nutrition assistance programs.

03/03/2026
Resource | Research and Data Summary of Peer Review Comments on Systematic Reviews Conducted by the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

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.

01/20/2026
Resource | Research and Data Summary of Peer Review Comments on Food Pattern Modeling Conducted by the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

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.

01/20/2026
Resource | Policy Request for Information: Ultra-Processed Foods - Extension of Comment Period

FDA and USDA (we) are extending the comment period for the notice that appeared in the Federal Register of July 25, 2025. In the notice, we requested data and information to help develop a uniform definition of ultra-processed foods. In response to requests for an extension, we are extending the comment period until Oct. 23, 2025, to allow interested persons additional time to submit comments.

09/19/2025
Resource | Policy Request for Information: Ultra-Processed Foods

FDA and USDA (we) are requesting data and information to help develop a uniform definition of ultra-processed foods (UPF or UPFs) for human food products in the U.S. food supply. A uniform UPF definition, developed as part of a joint effort by federal agencies, would allow for consistency in research and policy to pave the way for addressing health concerns associated with the consumption of UPFs. 

07/25/2025
Basic page Household/ Consumer

The Dietary Guidelines is used to inform the development of federal food, nutrition, and health policies and programs and serves as the evidence-based foundation for nutrition education materials that are developed by the federal government for the public.

07/18/2023
Resource | Technical Assistance Healthy Eating Index (HEI)

The Healthy Eating Index is a measure of diet quality used to assess how well a set of foods aligns with key recommendations and dietary patterns published in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

07/14/2023
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