- use cups, ounces, and teaspoons to measure specific recommendations rather than "servings."
- increase the recommended number of cups of "starchy vegetables" and "other vegetables" per week, but kept the same recommended amounts for "dark leafy greens," "orange vegetables," and "legumes."
- provide "estimated daily caloric needs" for "sedentary" and "active" people only, instead of providing "sedentary," "moderately active," and "active" categories as they have in the past. [Maybe their research showed that many people who self-identified as "moderately active" were rounding themselves up from sedentary, so they eliminated the 'moderate' category?] (click on image to enlarge)
View a summary of the new Food Patterns here or below (click on image to enlarge):