5 servings per day

[smashthemachine]

In reading about nutrition recently, I have noticed that the FDA reccomends
5 to 9 servings per day of fruits and vegetables.If you search on My Pyramid.gov you'll find the same document I found about fruits and veggies. I think it's pretty confusing to think about how you would actually eat that much of anything in a day, and how they decide

Comments

[midnightbrave]

I'd imagine the FDA says fruits and vegetables and means "healthy things". Like, things that do not contain butter or HFCS. Starches would probably count for both, assuming they lack those ingredients.

[arturus]

You should regard the food pyramid with a fair amount of skepticism anyway: its makeup was heavily influenced by lobbyists for various industries at the time of it's creation. That, plus the european biases of it (dairy consumption is a trait mostly found in europeans and their descendants. This shows incidence rates of lactose intolerance worldwide

Also, the newer revision of it doesn't even use servings as a unit of measurement anymore, after that was found to be too confusing, and doesn't make specific amount recommendations without a small amount of personalizing data. This came out in 2005, the older food pyramid was from 1992. The fact sheet you're referencing looks to be from 2003, a little bit too early to have benefitted from the revamp, which was mostly for the better, I think.

For me, mypyramid recommends five cups combined of fruits and vegetables a day.

[smashthemachine]

lol thank you
I still think that 5 cups is a LOT!