DGE food animal food pyramid

In addition to the purely animal products in this group, there are classified and processed products with a low proportion of plant components. Similar to the food of the plant site it is also due to the fat content, energy density and especially the fat quality assessed and classified. Highly recommended is the fish. Above all, it provides richer fat varieties such as salmon, mackerel and herring, which are particularly valuable in omega-3 fatty acids which have a protective effect on the cardiovascular system. Together with low-fat dairy products and low-fat meat, including poultry, it forms the base of the pyramid side.

Especially low-fat products that provide nutrients such as calcium, vitamin B and D, and iron and zinc. At the next level follows fatty meats, fatty dairy products and cheese. The less recommendable foods like fatty meats and sausages, and eggs, cream and bacon are arranged at the top of the pyramid and should turn in the compilation of the daily diet of the low-fat versions lag behind.

Although the oils and fats are in the diet group, only a tiny segment is reserved to receive this specific pages in the pyramid, since they are attributed particular importance in the diet. Moderate fat intake should be taken in, so it is important to achieve with small amounts of fats and oils that supply essential fatty acids for optimal cardiovascular diseases effectively prevented. Then there is the adequate intake of vitamin E. Therefore, it is especially necessary in this food group, to undertake a careful selection.

The traffic light is green when valuable canola and walnut oil, followed by wheat germ oil, soybean oil and olive oil. All these oils have a very positive fatty acid composition, and also have a high vitamin E content and are technically versatile in the kitchen. In midfield, there are yellow sunflower oil, corn oil and margarine as butter, lard and grease board in the top of the pyramid is shown.

The high amount of saturated fatty acids should give these fats in the diet only a minor role. The additional recommendation is, if possible, prefer low-fat products in order to reduce the fat intake. The drinks get to the central position in the DGE-diet group also has its own page on the three-dimensional food pyramid, has to drink for a direct effect on the performance and well-being of our body. The drinks will be re-evaluated after the energy density and the level of essential nutrients, adjust the content comes to stimulating substances.

Drinks are in close correlation with the obesity development seen when the drinking solution provides the incorrect selection of high amounts of energy. The main task of drinks is as a thirst quencher, but not the record of energy, so included fruit and vegetable juices, as well as the milk, is not on this group. Optimal and thus at the bottom of the pyramid there are the drinks, which provide no energy such as water, mineral water and unsweetened teas.

Green and black tea have a stimulating, as well as coffee drinks, and are therefore located in the midfield, along with fruit juice spritzers, light beverages and alcohol-free beer, which may contain a maximum of 7% carbohydrates to be here. Red again warns the triangle tip from beverages with high energy content such as soft drinks, energy drinks, fruit nectars and juice drinks, which should be taken in the selection of drinks very little. Alcoholic beverages were not included because of their addictive potential in the pyramid.

A healthy diet: the dietary recommendations of the Food Pyramid in brief positively classified as are the foods that lower part of the encountered are pyramid or the like vegetables and fruit, fish, low-fat milk and dairy products and lean meat and poultry, rapeseed oil, drinking water and mineral water with much or little carbon dioxide. They are particularly valuable for the health-conscious diet, and thus a healthy eating plan.

One should be eating three-quarters of the daily food intake from foods from the vegetable products are selected. Pay attention to the adequate intake of whole-fat products and a correspondingly efficient preparation and the intake you derive from the DGE-diet group.