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Resource | Training and Outreach Pledge for Healthier School Meals

USDA is asking states to pledge to make their school meals and snack programs healthier to ensure students are served nourishing foods that support lifelong healthy eating patters.

07/14/2026
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 | Federal Register Notices Information Collection: USDA Professional Standards Trainings and Tracker Tool (PSTTT)

This collection is an extension, without change, of a currently approved collection for assisting state agencies and school nutrition professionals in searching for trainings, recording, tracking, and managing the required training hours for state and local school district nutrition professionals, in four major areas (nutrition, operations, administration, and communications and marketing), to meet the requirements of the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act of 2010 Professional Standards Rule.

03/31/2026
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 | Research and Data A Feasibility Assessment of Alternative Approaches for Reevaluating the Thrifty Food Plan

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.

02/17/2026
Resource | Policy Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 – Promoting Real Food in Child Nutrition Programs

In this program guidance, Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke L. Rollins, strongly encourages child nutrition program operators to familiarize themselves with the key recommendations and consider how the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025-2030 can be incorporated into program meals and snacks to promote healthy outcomes and healthy families.

02/11/2026
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
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