Food pyramid may refer to:
- Food guide pyramid, a core concept in nutritional guides around the world.
- MyPyramid, the USDA's 2005 version of the food guide pyramid.
- MyPlate, replaces the MyPyramid and was introduced by the USDA in 2011.
- Ecological pyramid or trophic pyramid, a representation of a food chain.
Famous quotes containing the words food and/or pyramid:
“One farmer says to me, “You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;” and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“So universal and widely related is any transcendent moral greatness, and so nearly identical with greatness everywhere and in every age,—as a pyramid contracts the nearer you approach its apex,—that, when I look over my commonplace-book of poetry, I find that the best of it is oftenest applicable, in part or wholly, to the case of Captain Brown.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)