Table 2.

USDA Food Patterns: food groups and subgroups

Food group	Subgroup and examples
Vegetables	Dark green vegetables: all fresh, frozen, and canned dark green leafy vegetables and broccoli, cooked or raw (broccoli, spinach, romaine, collard, turnip, and mustard greens)
	Red and orange vegetables: all fresh, frozen, and canned red and orange vegetables, cooked or raw (tomatoes, red peppers, carrots, sweet potatoes, winter squash, pumpkin)
	Beans and peas: all cooked and canned beans and peas (kidney beans, lentils, chickpeas, and pinto beans). Does not include green beans or green peas.
	Starchy vegetables: all fresh, frozen, and canned starchy vegetables (white potatoes, corn, green peas)
	Other vegetables: all fresh, frozen, and canned other vegetables (iceberg lettuce, green beans, onions)
Fruit	All fresh, frozen, canned, and dried fruits and fruit juices (oranges and orange juice, apples and apple juice, bananas, grapes, melons, berries, and raisins)