Go ahead, have another egg for breakfast, but mind the sugar in the beverage you wash it down with. Updated once every five years, the latest version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has been released, and things aren’t getting any easier for food and beverage industry companies that make products high in sugar. The guidelines were formed by recommendations from the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee—composed of prestigious researchers in the fields of nutrition, health, and medicine, and by consideration of public and federal agency comments.
Though meats were feared to be in the committee’s crosshairs, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans say eating lean meat is still OK, and Americans do not have to cut back on eggs and sodium as it was earlier suggested. Sugar, particularly added sugars, received rougher treatment from the committee. A new recommendation suggests limiting added sugars to less than 10 percent of daily calories, or about 200 calories a day.