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. 2020 Feb 4;4(3):nzaa015. doi: 10.1093/cdn/nzaa015

TABLE 2.

Recommended eating patterns of EAT-Lancet and the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Recommended eating pattern (2500 kcal/person/d)
Food group and subgroup EAT-Lancet1 Healthy US Style Healthy Mediterranean Style Healthy Vegetarian
Fruit, grams 200 (100–300) 363 454 363
Vegetables, grams 350 (200–700) 402 402 402
 Dark green 100 38 38 38
 Red and orange 100 134 134 134
 Starchy 50 (0–100) 125 125 125
 Other 100 105 105 105
Grains, grams 494 371 371 397
 Whole2 494 218 218 244
 Refined 0 153 153 153
Protein foods, grams 302 249 276 181
 Meat, poultry, eggs3 56 141 141 21
  Red meat4 14 (0–28) 71 71 0
  Poultry 29 (0–58) 49 49 0
  Eggs 13 (0–25) 21 21 21
 Seafood/fish 28 (0–100) 41 67 0
 Nuts, seeds, soy3 75 11 11 50
  Nuts and seeds5 50 (25–100) 10 10 18
  Soy 25 (0–50) 2 2 33
 Beans and peas2 143 (0–286) 56 56 109
Dairy, grams 250 (0–500) 446 372 446
Oils, grams 40 (20–80) 33 33 33
Discretionary calories,6 kcal 216 (0–216) 365 315 390
1

Adapted from EAT-Lancet (1); Range of recommended grams included when a range was provided by EAT-Lancet.

2

Dry weights of these food subgroups in the EAT-Lancet pattern were converted to as-consumed using FPED and FICRCD (12, 13). The ratio of as-consumed to dry foods was 2.13 for grains and 2.86 for beans (mean of lentils, black beans, split peas).

3

DGA recommendations are at these subcategory levels of resolution. Subcategories were further disaggregated using the Technical Tables for the 2015 USDA Food Patterns (10) to map to EAT-Lancet categories.

4

Includes the EAT-Lancet categories of beef and lamb, and pork.

5

Includes the EAT-Lancet categories of tree nuts and peanuts.

6

In the DGA, this category is “limit on calories for other uses.” It includes the EAT-Lancet categories of palm oil, lard or tallow, and added sugars.

DGA, Dietary Guidelines for Americans; EAT-Lancet, EAT-Lancet Commission on Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems; FICRCD, Food Intakes Converted to Retail Commodities Database; FPED, Food Patterns Equivalents Database.