Australian Food Pyramid 2024. The australian guide to healthy eating is a food selection guide which visually represents the proportion of the five food groups recommended for consumption each day. The food groups included in the plate are:

Now, the australian government guidelines use a plate model that focuses on 5 food groups: Nutrition australia first introduced the healthy eating pyramid in 1980, based on a ‘more to less’ concept developed in sweden in the 1970s.