Dietary Pagoda*** is divided into five layers, including the main types of food that should be eaten every day, and the location and area of each layer of the Dietary Pagoda is different, which reflects the position of various types of food in the diet and the proportion that should be accounted for.

Cereals are at the bottom, each person should eat 250g~400g per day; vegetables and fruits at the second level, should eat 300g~500g and 200g~400g per day; fish, poultry, meat, eggs and other animal foods are located in the third level, should eat 125g~225g per day (50g~100g of fish and shrimp, 50g~100g of livestock and poultry, 25g~75g of eggs, 75g~75g of eggs). 75g, eggs 25g~50g); dairy and soy foods together in the fourth layer, every day should eat the equivalent of fresh milk 300g of milk and milk products and the equivalent of dry beans 30g~50g of soybeans and products. At the top of the fifth layer of the tower are cooking oil and salt, with no more than 25g or 30g of cooking oil and no more than 6g of salt per day.

Proposal of the Dietary Pagoda

In order to help consumers to practise the Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents in their daily lives, the Expert Committee further proposed a food rationing guideline program, which is represented by the Pagoda graphic. It intuitively tells the concept of food categorization and the reasonable range of daily intake of various types of food, that is to say, it tells consumers the types of food they should eat every day and the corresponding quantities, and provides specific guidance on the rational allocation of balanced diets, so it is called the "Balanced Dietary Pagoda for Chinese Residents".

The Chinese Balanced Diet Pagoda is designed according to the Chinese Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents combined with the characteristics of the dietary structure of Chinese residents. It translates the principle of balanced diet into the weight of various types of food and expresses it in the form of a visual pagoda, which is easy for the public to understand and implement in their daily lives.