The “new” Canada Food Guide (2019) abolished recommendations about the number and size of servings for vegetables and fruits and replaced those with guidance that half your plate (or daily intake) of nutrition should be fruits or vegetables. Their rationale was that the serving size recommendations were too difficult for people to understand and remember.

I was quite surprised at this, at first. But remembering that half of the volume of what you eat each day should come from plants and that green and orange are the most critical to eat every day, is actually probably easier for people.

The big challenge, in my view, is the rising cost of food and the availability and accessibility of safe fresh produce for all. The food safety issues in the past few years (with romaine lettuce and other imported fruits and vegetables) have many of us very concerned. Eating local, supporting local farmers and food producers, and growing my own produce is accessible to me because I have the means. It is out of reach for many families and food choices reflect that struggle. This is a big issue.

Now I am intrigued to know what the recommendations and experience are in other countries. Thanks for this opener @biketheworld 🌟

The other very controversial change to the Canada Food Guide was to eliminate dairy as a food group of its own. And, to move away from recommending dairy based milk and milk products. 💡

Another pass day (I think that makes 5?)
We did get a long bike ride this morning, and I had a short swim, but not as many steps as I get at home.
I logged breakfast and lunch and a couple of snacks but dinner was too difficult.
No beer today (or wine) but I did have an ice cream.

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UK recommendations for fruit/veg is a minimum of 5 x 80g servings. It’s also recommended that you eat a wide variety of different fruit/veg.

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