SSC GD 2023 PYQ — Question 22

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. fats and sugars.

• Fats and Sugars comes at the top of the food guide pyramid. 
• The Food Guide Pyramid was a recognizable nutritional tool that was introduced by the USDA in 1992.
• It was shaped like a pyramid to suggest that a person should eat more foods from bottom to the pyramid and fewer foods and beverages from the top of the pyramid. 
• The Food Guide Pyramid dispdisplayed proportionality and variety in each of five groups of food and beverages, ascending in horizontal layers starting from the base and moving upward towards the tip: Breads, cereals, pasta and rice; fruits and vegetables; dairy products; eggs, fish, legumes, meat and poultry; alcohol, fats and sugars.