Making small changes to improve diet is better than no change, find out more about what a healthy balanced diet looks like
A healthy diet includes a wide range of types of foods and is an important part of maintaining good health.
The Eatwell Guide shows the proportions in which different types of food are needed to have a healthy, balanced diet.
This consists of lots of fruit, vegetables and starchy carbohydrates plus some dairy, meat, fish, pulses and other kinds of protein. Eating plenty of these, whilst consuming foods high in fat, salt and sugar, less often and in smaller amounts, can help to reduce your risk of health conditions.
Our advice covers everything from getting the right amount of healthy food and cutting down on fat, salt and sugar to vitamins and minerals.
Eatwell Everyday brings together the Eatwell Guide recommendations for a healthy balanced diet, showing what a balanced diet can look like over the course of a week.
Discover how a healthy and balanced diet can help manage health conditions.
Following a vegetarian or vegan diet can be a healthy option, but it is important to ensure it is balanced and varied.
Eating a healthy balanced diet is important for us all. But there isn’t one diet for all of us. Pregnant women, young people and older people all need slightly different things when it comes to food groups and types of food.
What are processed and ultra-processed foods, and should we really be worried?
Our Healthy Eating Tutorial helps you to know what a healthy diet looks like, why it's important, and what help is available to achieve it.
