Sustainability in food-based dietary guidelines: a review of recommendations around meat and dairy consumption and their visual representation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The transition away from high meat and dairy consumption and towards more plant-based diets is vital for environmental sustainability targets, including reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and land use associated with food. Food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG) communicate nutrition information to a country's general public. However, it is unknown how different countries' FBDG communicate reducing meat and dairy intake in the context of sustainability.

Methods

To address this gap, we reviewed global consumer-facing FBDG (n = 58) in middle- and high-income countries to examine recommendations and information around meat and dairy consumption, and to explore the pictorial representation of these foods.

Results

Few countries used a sustainability arg

SUBMITTER: Sinclair M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11892039 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature