Though nutrition research and technology today is more advanced than in the 1990s, both health experts and medical professionals of that time questioned the rationale behind the Food Pyramid.

Peak nutrition. The familiar food guide pyramid, introduced in 1992, is under scrutiny by experts who are asking if the basic shape should stay the same, be remodeled or scrapped altogether.

Cereal box readers likely recognize the Food Guide Pyramid, a graphic designed by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) as an easy-to-follow guide to healthy eating. The pyramid's designers thought ...

That revision, expected in the next couple of months, would be the pyramid's first since it was created 12 years ago. Among the possibilities: the pyramid could give way to a different shape.

MyPlate replaced food pyramid in 2011 FILE - A sample plate of the food icon MyPlate, is unveiled at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, Thursday, June 2, 2011.

In response to the criticism, Dariush Mozaffarian, a nutrition professor at Tufts University who helped develop Food Compass, told VERIFY the system has scored 58,000 products and “works well.” ...

Eleven years later, it's not surprising that the pyramid's recommendations are not in line with recent work in nutrition -- in particular, with the most current overview on eating and health, a ...

In response to the criticism, Dariush Mozaffarian, a nutrition professor at Tufts University who helped develop Food Compass, told VERIFY the system has scored 58,000 products and “works well.” ...

In response to the criticism, Dariush Mozaffarian, a nutrition professor at Tufts University who helped develop Food Compass, told VERIFY the system has scored 58,000 products and “works well.” ...

In response to the criticism, Dariush Mozaffarian, a nutrition professor at Tufts University who helped develop Food Compass, told VERIFY the system has scored 58,000 products and “works well.” ...

In response to the criticism, Dariush Mozaffarian, a nutrition professor at Tufts University who helped develop Food Compass, told VERIFY the system has scored 58,000 products and “works well.” ...

In response to the criticism, Dariush Mozaffarian, a nutrition professor at Tufts University who helped develop Food Compass, told VERIFY the system has scored 58,000 products and “works well.” ...