2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans Expected in Early 2026
The 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans will be released in early 2026, a little later than expected for the government's official recommendations for a healthy diet. There’s curiosity within the food industry on how much influence the Make America Healthy Again movement will have on the guidelines.
Speculation has it that saturated fat may not get the critical treatment it has in the past, protein will be highlighted, full-fat dairy products may be recommended and there may be some discussion or even a definition of ultraprocessed foods.
Bloomberg and other news sources in November said there were rumors President Trump was suggesting the return of the Food Pyramid as the visual symbol of the recommendations, which was replaced by MyPlate in 2011.
In November, Robert Kennedy, secretary of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the new guidelines were coming in December. But a spokesperson for HHS told Reuters news service this week they will be released “soon after the first of the year."
They’re developed jointly by HHS, parent of the FDA, and USDA and are updated every five years. They aim to change the population eats, to reduce high rates of obesity and they affect funding for school lunches, SNAP benefits and other food programs that rely on federal funding.
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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.