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:

    At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
    Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
    The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
    Her stove, and lays out food in tins.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    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)