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Food-Based Dietary Guidelines in Europe: Source Documents

Food-Based Dietary Guidelines in Europe - Source Documents

Disclaimer: Due care was taken to ensure factually correct information. Food groupings and food group names differ across individual FBDGs; the ones used here are a compromise to present the information in a structured way. Differences such as those in number of portions and portion sizes were kept unaltered. The original country FBDGs and the responsible national public health authorities remain the only qualified points of reference.

Belgium - Flanders

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Flemish Institute for Healthy Living
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Belgium - Flanders

 

Belgium - Wallonia

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Food in Action in collaboration with Institute Paul Lambin
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Belgium - Wallonia

Bulgaria

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry of Health; National Center of Public Health Protection
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Bulgaria

Czechia

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Czech Society for Nutrition
 

Denmark

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry of Environment and Food
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Denmark

Germany

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • German Nutrition Society, on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture

Endorsed by the Ministries of Health and Agriculture.

Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Germany circle

 

 

Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Germany pyramide

Estonia

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • National Institute for Health Development
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Estonia

Ireland

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Department of Health
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Ireland

Greece

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry of Health
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Greece

Spain

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry of Health, Consumption and Social Welfare; Spanish Agency for Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Nutrition (AECOSAN).
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Spain

France

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • High Council of Public Health
 

Croatia

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Croatian Public Health Institute

Endorsed by the Ministry of Health.

 

Italy

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • National Institute of Food and Nutrition Research under the patronage of Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies
 

Cyprus

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry of Health
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Cyprus

Latvia

Source documents:

 

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry of Health

The guidelines were endorsed by the Ministry of Health.

Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Latvia

Lithuania

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry of Health
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Lithuania

Luxembourg

Source documents:

  • Ernaehrung und Bewegung (2016)

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry of Health
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Luxembourg

Hungary

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Hungarian Dietetic Association (MDOSZ) with recommendation of the Food Science Scientific Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Hungary

Malta

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry for Health; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Malta

Netherlands

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Netherlands Nutrition Centre
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Netherlands

Austria

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Ministry for Labour, Social Affairs, Health and Consumer Protection
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Austria

Poland

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Institute of Food and Nutrition, Warsaw, Poland
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Poland

Portugal

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Faculty of Nutrition and Food Science of University of Porto, Portuguse Consumer Institute, Directorate-General for Health
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Portugal

Romania

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Romanian Nutrition Society
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Romania

Slovenia

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • National Institute of Public Health
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Slovenia

Slovakia

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Slovakia

Finland

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • State Nutrition Advisory Board
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Finland pyramid

 

 

Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Finland plate

 

 

Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Finland food proportion

Sweden

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Swedish National Food Agency
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Sweden

United Kingdom

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Public Health England in association with the Welsh Government, Food Standards Scotland and the Food Standards Agency in Northern Ireland.
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines United Kingdom

Switzerland

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Swiss Nutrition Society in collaboration with Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office
Food-Based Dietary Guidelines Switzerland

Iceland

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • The Directorate of Health and a group of specialists from the University of Iceland.
 

Norway

Source documents:

FBDG developed by:

  • Norwegian Directorate of Health