Guide

Canada Food Guide- Vegetables recommends filling half your plate with vegetables and fruits at meals and snacks for steady, balanced eating.

Canada Food Guide- Serving Recommendations use plate proportions—½ vegetables and fruits, ¼ whole grains, ¼ protein foods—not fixed serving counts.

In Canada Food Guide- milk sits under protein foods; pick lower-fat cow’s milk or fortified soy and keep water as your daily drink.

Canada Food Guide- Plant Based centres meals on half vegetables and fruits, a quarter whole grains, and a quarter protein, choosing plant sources more often.

The Canada Food Guide portion plate shows half vegetables and fruits, one-quarter whole grains, and one-quarter protein, with water as the drink.

Adults need about 0.8 g of protein per kilogram of body weight each day, with higher targets during late pregnancy and while breastfeeding.

The Canada Food Guide portion sizes use a plate model: half vegetables and fruit, one-quarter whole grains, one-quarter protein foods.

The Canada food guide healthy plate shows half vegetables and fruits, one-quarter whole grain, one-quarter protein, with water at the table.

The Canada Food Guide- Plate Model: half vegetables and fruits, one quarter whole grains, one quarter protein foods, with water as drink of choice.

Canada Food Guide- Servings Per Day refers to the legacy “servings” targets by age, while the current guide uses plate-style proportions across the day.