Retailers, wholesalers and product suppliers have the unique opportunity to showcase and educate shoppers on responsible ways to leverage food for improved overall health and well-being.  The following resources support initiatives to connect food to health.

Food for Health Resources

MyPlate
Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025

The Dietary Guidelines provides advice on what to eat and drink to meet nutrient needs, promote health, and help prevent chronic disease. This edition of the Dietary Guidelines is the first to provide guidance for healthy dietary patterns by life stage, from birth through older adulthood, including women who are pregnant or lactating. People who work in Federal agencies, public health, healthcare, education, and business all rely on the Dietary Guidelines when providing information on diet and health to the general public.

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Start Simple with MyPlate

The benefits of healthy eating add up over time, bite by bite. Small changes matter. Learn more about the MyPlate Food Groups and personalized resources to include the Start Simple with MyPlate app at  https://www.myplate.gov/. 

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SmartLabel® 

SmartLabel® provides easy and instantaneous access to detailed information about thousands of food, beverage, personal care, household and pet care products. Consumers can find product information in many ways – smartphone, computer, telephone.

Facts Up Front 

Facts Up Front was developed for the industry as a voluntary initiative as a simple and easy-to-use labeling system that displays key nutrition information to consumers on the front of food and beverage packages.

FoodKeeper
FoodKeeper

The FoodKeeper contains food safety and storage advice to help your shoppers maintain freshness and quality of foods. Shoppers can utilize the FoodKeeper mobile app and shoppers can search the FoodKeeper database online. 

Nutrifacts Posters

FMI created nutritional information on the major cuts of single-ingredient, raw meat and poultry. These Nutri-Facts posters and brochures are available through the our Store in the following formats:

  • Nutri-Facts Poster (available in print and PDF)
  • Nutri-Facts Poster Beef & Veal only, Chicken & Turkey only or Lamb & Pork only (print)
  • Nutri-Facts brochures (print)

FMI Research Related to Nutrition

PoHWB 2024 Revised Cover

The Power of Health and Well-Being in the Food Industry 2024

Spotlight: Recognizing Food Industry RDNs

Registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs), health professionals and nutrition scientists work with companies that represent the entire food industry, improving the lives of customers, employees and communities everywhere.
Hispanic Grocery Shopper

Grocery Shopper Snapshot: Hispanic Edition

This brief report provides insight into Hispanic grocery shopping habits, including attitudes, behaviors and purchase drivers.
Power of Plant-based Alternative Foods and Beverages

Power of Plant-Based Alternative Foods and Beverages 2024

This report dives into consumer perspectives and habits regarding plant-based alternative foods and beverages.
Unlocking the Potential of Healthy Benefits Programs in Retail

Unlocking the Potential of Healthy Benefits Programs in Retail

Healthy benefits programs, which allow different health paying entities to allocate funds for consumers to spend on health and well-being, are quickly expanding in commercial and government insurance programs.

Spotlight: Nutrition Experts Reach Consumers with Science-Based Tech Tools

This video captures the role that technology plays in the nutrition and health space to help inform and empower consumers as they make personalized food choices for improved overall health.
The Food Retailing Industry Speaks

The Food Retailing Industry Speaks 2024

The food industry is experiencing enormous change. The latest version of The Food Retailing Industry Speaks relays many shifting developments and describes how the industry has worked hard to make progress in the face of all this change.
U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends

U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2024: Finding Value

Beyond price and quality, shoppers define value to include relevance, convenience and experience.
U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends: Eating & Cooking

U.S. Grocery Shopper Trends 2024: Eating & Cooking

This report seeks to understand the evolution of selected eating behaviors and needs that most directly shape the priorities and behaviors of grocery shoppers, ranging from personal nutritional objectives to the social contexts for meals.

Spotlight: The Food Industry is Committed to Health and Well-being

Across the food industry, retailers and product suppliers are focused on health and well-being initiatives, committed to improving hunger and nutrition in the communities they serve.
Food Industry Contributions to Health & Well-being

Food Industry Contributions to Health & Well-being

The 2024 Food Industry Contributions to Health & Well-being report demonstrates how the food industry contributes to the health of their customers, including offering nutrition guidance, pharmacy solutions and overall health and well-being resources.
HW Council Highlights from the 2023 In-Person Meeting

FMI's Health & Well-being Council: Highlights from the 2023 In-person Meeting

This report spotlights key takeaways from speakers at the FMI Health & Well-being In-person meeting, held in November, and action steps recommended by attendees.
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The Power of Health and Well-being in the Food Industry 2023

This report curates a wide range of FMI research and content on this topic and identifies emerging consumer trends, quantifies consumer attitudes regarding health and well-being in food retail and establishes benchmarks for future evaluation.

Spotlight: Improving Nutrition Security at the Grocery Store

This video explores the investments food retailers are making to fight hunger and improve the health of customers.

Spotlight: Hy-Vee and Weis Market Provide Access to Disease Management and Treatment

Retail registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) are an invaluable community health resource. RDNs provide nutrition therapy specific to disease management and treatment, right in the grocery store.

How Accepting Healthy Benefits Support Customer Wellbeing

In this report we explore the financial landscape of healthy benefits programs, how these programs work, and opportunities and challenges retailers may face in establishing systems to accept healthy benefit card payments.

Spotlight: Nutrition, Health & Well-being at the Grocery Store

Food City and Northgate Gonzalez Market are connecting with customers and communities on nutrition and health by meeting people where they are, right in the grocery store.

VIDEO: The Power of Health and Well-being At Grocery Stores

Members of the food industry nutrition community share why grocery stores are a destination for health and well-being.

Spotlight: Promoting Food Safety at the Grocery Store

Grocery stores are helping shoppers learn and practice important food safety steps while cooking and handling food at home.

Spotlight: Grocery Stores Provide Access to Disease Management and Treatment

Consumers and employees can meet in the aisle with RDNs and receive nutrition education and practical tips while also providing Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) to manage and treat disease, translating the science of food into healthy habits.

Spotlight: Grocery Stores Encourage Health and Well-being

Food retailers are encouraging health and well-being for both shoppers and employees and pivoted during the pandemic to stay connected, offer support and expand outreach.
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The Food as Medicine Opportunity in Food Retail

FMI and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation collaborate on series of research and resources to helps raise the profile of Food as Medicine.
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2021 Retailer Contributions to Health and Well-being

The 2021 Retailer Contributions to Health & Well-being report demonstrates how grocery stores are contributing to the health of their customers, including offering nutrition guidance, pharmacy solutions and overall health and well-being resources.