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How are meals defined and categorized?

Meals are the meals and dishes you eat on a daily basis.

The Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents clearly tell you the major food groups that are necessary every day: cereals and potatoes, animal foods, legumes and nuts, vegetables, fruits and mushrooms and seaweeds, and pure energy foods.

Specific classification:

1, cereals and potatoes: cereals include rice, noodles, coarse grains and products, potatoes such as sweet potatoes.

2, animal food: including poultry, fish, meat, milk, eggs and so on.

3, beans and nuts: including soybeans, soybean products and nuts such as peanuts, walnuts, almonds.

4, vegetables, fruits and mushrooms and seaweed.

5. Pure energy foods, including animal and vegetable oils, table sugar and alcohol.

Each of the major categories of food in a variety of varieties, can be interchanged in the same category, such as meat, you can eat sea fish and pork today, tomorrow eat rabbit, duck, the day after tomorrow to eat freshwater fish, chicken, which can meet the nutritional needs, but also make the diet colorful.