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:
“There is no instant of time when one creature is not being devoured by another. Over all these numerous races of animals man is placed, and his destructive hand spares nothing that lives. He kills to obtain food and he kills to clothe himself; he kills to adorn himself; he kills in order to attack and he kills to defend himself; he kills to instruct himself and he kills to amuse himself; he kills to kill. Proud and terrible king, he wants everything and nothing resists him.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“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)