How to Use food pyramid in a Sentence

food pyramid

noun
  • What does the new food pyramid look like?
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
  • When did the first food pyramid come out?
    — Marley Malenfant, Austin American Statesman, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Here's what was changed on the food pyramid.
    — Bailey Allen, The Providence Journal, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Whole milk is also at the top of the new food pyramid.
    — Brittany Luse, NPR, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The new food pyramid features a bag of frozen peas.
    — Sarah Todd, STAT, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Life isn’t easy for creatures at the top of the food pyramid.
    — Jill Barth, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The new food pyramid has turned things upside down.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Yet the dairy trend has been hot long before the food pyramid flip.
    — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Big Quack has turned the trusty old food pyramid upside down.
    — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
  • But the new food pyramid emphasizes whole fat dairy, like whole milk.
    — Kadin Mills, NPR, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Is the new food pyramid more affordable and healthy?
    — O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 16 Jan. 2026
  • The new food pyramid does make some important points.
    — Tania Fabo, USA Today, 22 Jan. 2026
  • New food pyramid compared to the old pyramid?
    — Beth Reese Cravey, Florida Times-Union, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The new food pyramid does the opposite.
    — Debbie Millman, STAT, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The new food pyramid emphasizes full-fat dairy, Mokari said.
    — Madeline Holcombe, CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • In Kennedy's food pyramid, protein takes center stage.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
  • At the top of the new US food pyramid are a bright red steak and a packet of ground beef.
    — Emma Court, Bloomberg, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The old food pyramid versus the new The visual isn't the only thing that was flipped.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The government flipped the food pyramid around, placing protein at the top.
    — Ellen Cushing, The Atlantic, 15 May 2026
  • Soon, vodka becomes her entire food pyramid, and even tiny Kit knows something is amiss.
    — Washington Post, 31 May 2021
  • The new food pyramid is an inverse of previous versions, with grains at the bottom and protein at the top.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
  • My three-cup-a-day habit, the foundation of my personal food pyramid, is costing a fortune.
    — Doreen Christensen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The challenge was to figure out what exactly appeared on the caveman food pyramid.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • Proposals to put manatees or mealworms on the food pyramid would face challenges.
    — David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 27 June 2026
  • Mozaffarian puts cheese in the middle of his personal three-tier food pyramid.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 22 Feb. 2021
  • But grain is the foundation of many of our diets, the all-important foundation of the food pyramid.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2022
  • This will by no means fit into any version of a food pyramid, but my dream dinner involves a bucket of cheese popcorn and a glass of crisp white wine.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Here are some of the standout differences between the old and new food pyramids and what Kentuckians should know about it.
    — Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
  • There is even a steak near the top of the Department of Agriculture’s new upside-down food pyramid.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The new food pyramid emphasizes eating more protein from meats and fish, dairy and fruit and vegetables at the top and less whole grains at the bottom.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 8 Jan. 2026

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