The 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans reaffirm fruits and vegetables as the foundation of healthy eating patterns
The International Fresh Produce Association (IFPA) has released a statement following the release of the 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture.
IFPA said it appreciated the continued recognition of fruits and vegetables as central to healthy dietary patterns, and the administration’s focus on reversing diet-related chronic disease.
“Today’s Dietary Guidelines reinforce the critical role fruits and vegetables play in overall health,” noted IFPA vice president of nutrition and health Mollie Van Lieu.
“Scientific evidence consistently shows that fruits and vegetables should make up the majority of what people eat.
”The administration’s focus on whole foods is an opportunity to increase fruit and vegetable intake, as they are the most nutrient-dense foods available,” she said.
The 2025–2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans reaffirm fruits and vegetables as a foundation of healthy eating, calling for Americans to consume a variety of colourful, nutrient-dense produce throughout the day as part of a diet centred on “real, whole foods”.
Guidelines recommend three servings of vegetables and two servings of fruits per day for a 2,000-calorie dietary pattern and clearly distinguish naturally occurring sugars in whole fruits from added sugars.
IFPA also welcomed the guidelines’ focus on reducing added sugars and highly processed foods that displace healthier options like fruits and vegetables.
“The Dietary Guidelines are a framework for a host of federal nutrition programmes,” Van Lieu pointed out.
” We will continue working to ensure a wide variety of fruits and vegetables are available in these programmes and that the 2025–2030 Guidelines drive meaningful increases in fruit and vegetable consumption for all consumers.”
IFPA was actively involved throughout the DGA development process, submitting multiple rounds of written comments, providing oral testimony, and nominating members to serve on the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans are influential because they shape how food is distributed and promoted across major federal programmes, including school nutrition programmes like school breakfast and school lunch, the food package for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), military feeding programmes, and more.
