Nutrition Guidelines

• 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans — Current guidelines with the theme “Make Every Bite Count” from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
• USDA Databases — Research on supplements and food
• Nutrient Recommendations: DRIs — NIH tables and reports
  

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans Toolkit for Health Professionals — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) handouts available in English and Spanish
• Eat Healthy to Be Healthy — Infographic on how the DGAs improve health
• One Day at a Time — Sample one day menu of nutrient dense meals
• One Food or Beverage at a Time — Examples of typical foods and more nutrient dense alternatives
• One Meal at a Time — Comparison of a meal and a more nutrient dense version
• Saturated Fats — Top sources and average intake
• Sodium — How to reduce sodium intake
  • Sodium — Top sources and average intake

From DietaryGuidelines.gov:

• The Guidelines — Infographic of 2020-2025 DGAs
• Top Sources of Added Sugars — Top sources and average intakes
• Consumer Resources — Brochures, handouts, and printed materials
• Dietary Intakes Compared to Recommendations — Data on consumption for 60+

• Quick Tips: Nutrition Guidelines — Information and resources related to common questions
  about OAA Title III-C nutrient requirements
• Dietary Reference Intakes: Too Little, Too Much? — Learn about DRIs and how to apply them within the Older Americans Act (OAA) Title III-C programs

• Nutrition Requirements of the Older Americans Act — Basics nutrition responsibilities for Title III-C programs
• Purchasing Foodservice Software Guide — Considerations around nutrient analysis software and comparison of software features

• From DietaryGuidelines.gov:
  • Dietary Guidelines— Top ten things you need to know about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  • Customizing the DGA Framework — Foods, food groups, preparation styles
  • Healthy Eating Across the Lifespan — How DGAs promote health
  • Make Every Bite Count Overview — One-page DGA explainer 
• From the Nutrition & Aging Resource Center:
  • Fiber Intake
  • Protein
  • Vitamin D
  • Vitamin B-12
  • Vitamin B6
• Calcium — Fact sheet from NIH

• Adult Day Care Food Allergy Fact Sheets — Toolkit for managing food allergies in adult day cares operating the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and common questions about food allergies, from the Institute of Child Nutrition 
• Food Substitution List — Sample resource list to use when changing menu items
• Online DRI Calculator — Tool to calculate daily nutrient recommendations from USDA
• Food Service Guidelines — Implementation toolkit from CDC
• FoodData Central — USDA's data system to search for the nutrients a food contains

• DGA Toolkit
• Sodium Reduction Toolkit