The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released Dec. 29, provoked little pushback despite an advisory committee's recommendations to reduce sugar and alcohol intake. Bottom line for food & beverage processors is few if any changes need to be made to current product formulations. USDA and the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), parent of the FDA, are charged with updating the guidelines every five years, providing science-based recommendations to foster healthy dietary patterns for Americans of all ages - from birth through older adults. This edition for the first time includes recommended healthy dietary patterns for infants and toddlers, as well as for pregnant and lactating women. But those were the only major changes from the 2015 guidelines.
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