FDA’s Nutrition Goals

The FDA works to help empower consumers to build nutritious diets that support health and wellness. The U.S. faces an ever-growing epidemic of preventable diet-related chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity. Racial and ethnic minority groups, those with lower socioeconomic status, those living in rural areas, and other underserved communities disproportionately experience these diet-related chronic diseases. Improving nutrition is one of the most effective public health interventions for reducing these and other chronic illnesses and premature death.

As food can be a vehicle for wellness, the FDA helps to support nutritious eating patterns by providing information that helps consumers make informed food choices and by encouraging industry to make foods healthier.