Nutrition Principle A is drawn from the principles of the 2010 DGA and is meant to ensure that children achieve a healthful diet, without overeating, by choosing individual foods that make a meaningful contribution to the diet and avoiding foods that do not. Under this principle, individual foods marketed to children would contribute a significant amount of at least one of the following food groups – fruit, vegetable, whole grain, fat-free or low-fat milk products, fish, extra lean meat or poultry, eggs, nuts and seeds, or beans (referred to below as the “listed food groups”). Main dishes would need to include a meaningful contribution from.
