To view this site, use Netscape 3.0 or later. To view this site as it was designed, please use Netscape 3.0 or later browser. While flavors and ingredients differ across cultures, when it comes to nutritional guidelines, there s more similarity than might appear on the plate. Take the United States, for starters. Most of the pyramids are remarkably alike.
Grain products top the list, followed by vegetables and fruits.
Beans, legumes, nuts, dairy products and meat are part of most. And with the exception of a few ethnic guidelines such as the Mediterranean pyramid, fats are to be used very, very sparingly. For most diets, she said, what changes are the ingredients rather than the base requirements. For example, a healthy traditional Latin American food chart would include a combination of fruit, vegetables and breads or starches. Vegetables such as kale, cactus, turnip, tomatillo, spinach and chiles Breads such as maize, potato, rice, tortilla, beans, seeds, plantain and yucca.