Food Pyramid

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:

    “Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we—because we don’t question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.”
    —Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)

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    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)