Eat the Basic 7: Every Day!

Eat the Basic 7: Every Day!

The proper nutrition for the home front population to eat

Food wheel that demonstrates how much food and what types of food should be eaten. This poster informs the population on the various foods that they should eat in order to have a healthy diet. There is an emphasis on produce, as three of the seven sections of the chart refer to different types of vegetables: "Green and Yellow", "Oranges, tomatoes, and grapefruits", and "potatoes and other vegetables and fruits". The easiest way for the home front population to access these vegetables was to grow them in a victory garden.

United States War Food Administration
United States Department of Agriculture

University of North Texas Digital Library
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc619/

U.S. Government Printing Office

1943

Public Domain

English

1 Poster. Color.

52 x 72 cm