Cereal box readers likely recognize the Food Guide Pyramid, a graphic designed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as an easy-to-follow guide to healthy eating. The pyramid's designers thought ...

Johnston, PhD, RD, CNS, has disclosed no relevant financial relationships. A. The food guide pyramid, released in 1992, was widely used on posters, food packages, and educational handouts.

The food pyramid has long been a source of fluctuating guidance around how the USDA and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suggest the American public eat. You remember the food pyramid right?

“The food guide pyramid that was developed in 1991 really is based on the idea that all fat is bad. Therefore [if] fat is bad, and you have to eat something, carbohydrate must be wonderful ...

MyPlate replaced the food pyramid. It comes from the U.S. government as a way to picture what to put on your plate. The beauty of MyPlate is in using a plate icon to "measure" the relative portion ...

when it switched from the "food pyramid" diagram to "MyPlate". In the US, the plate is divided into four sections, but unlike Canada's food guide, it includes an image of a glass of milk.