Canada's National School Food Program Act received royal assent on 26 March 2026 (via Bill C-15, the Budget 2025 implementation act), giving the program announced in April 2024 a permanent legal footing. Budget 2025 funds it at $216.6 million a year from 2029-30.

The program launched with $1 billion over five years and a National School Food Policy (June 2024), aiming to reach 400,000 more children a year with school meals.

At the 13 February 2026 Food Ministers' Meeting, ministers asked FSANZ to prepare mandatory front-of-pack Health Star Rating labeling for Australia and New Zealand, after industry missed the voluntary target. Seventy percent of intended products were meant to show the stars by 14 November 2025, but only 39% did in Australia and 36% in New Zealand.

FSANZ has started Proposal P1067 to amend the Food Standards Code, with two rounds of public consultation before ministers make a final decision. The same meeting concluded that the Nutrition Information Panel needs no change.

HHS and USDA released the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, launched RealFood.gov, and retired the MyPlate.gov website. The new edition leans toward protein-rich whole foods, with red meat now named among the recommended proteins, and toward full-fat dairy. It replaces the MyPlate picture with an inverted food pyramid.

The interactive MyPlate Plan calculator was taken down at the same time.

As of 1 January 2026, most prepackaged foods sold in Canada must carry the black-and-white magnifying-glass "High in / Élevé en" symbol when saturated fat, sugars, or sodium meet or exceed 15% of the Daily Value (10% for small packages, 30% for main dishes of 200 g or more). The regulations were finalized in July 2022 with a transition period that ended 31 December 2025.

The CFIA says it has given no extra time past the deadline and does not intend to. Products packaged before the date can still be sold.

Canada's Food Guide itself is still the January 2019 edition, the plate with no serving counts, unchanged since.

Mexico's IEPS levy on flavored drinks with added sugars rose to $3.0818 MXN per liter on 1 January 2026, up from about $1.64, an increase of roughly 87%. The decree was published in the Diario Oficial on 7 November 2025.

For the first time, drinks with non-caloric sweeteners are taxed too, at $1.50 MXN per liter. It is the biggest change to the levy since it began in 2014.

From 1 January 2026, required nutrition labeling in South Korea covers 259 processed-food categories instead of 182, which is nearly all processed food, with about 30 exceptions such as ice, chewing gum and steeped teas. Rice cakes, breads and noodles are covered for the first time.

The change arrives in stages by company size: businesses with 2022 revenue over ₩12 billion must comply from 2026, and smaller businesses have until 1 January 2028. The same amendment (announced 9 August 2024) tightens the rules on "no added sugar" claims and on declaring sweeteners.

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare released the 2025 Korean Dietary Reference Intakes (한국인 영양소 섭취기준) on 31 December 2025. It is the second five-year revision since the standards became national in 2015, and it was developed with the Korean Nutrition Society.

The acceptable carbohydrate range drops from 55-65% of energy to 50-65%, and protein rises from 7-20% to 10-20% (fat stays at 15-30%). Choline gets Korean reference values for the first time, and around 20 nutrients were revised, among them dietary fiber, vitamin B6, calcium, phosphorus and sodium.

Sugar guidance was reworked: total sugars at or below 20% of energy, added sugars below 10%, and new advice to cut down on sugary drinks.

The American Diabetes Association released its 2026 Standards of Care in Diabetes on 8 December 2025, as the supplement to the January 2026 issue of Diabetes Care.

New on the food side: more guidance on eating patterns with evidence for preventing type 2 diabetes, naming Mediterranean-style and low-carbohydrate patterns and adding handouts for patients. It also puts more weight on watching nutrition and physical activity during obesity treatment.

The Diabetes Plate method itself is unchanged; the 2025 "Plan Your Plate" materials remain current.

Mexico's health secretariat issued a second edition of the Guías Alimentarias Saludables y Sostenibles para la Población Mexicana on 16 October 2025, aligning the guidance with the Ley General de Alimentación Adecuada y Sostenible (2024) and the 2025-2030 national plan.

The first edition (SSA, INSP and UNICEF, 2023) was Mexico's first set of guidelines built on diets that are both healthy and sustainable: ten food-based recommendations covering daily legumes, whole-grain maize tortillas, fewer ultra-processed foods and sugary drinks, and food culture.

The EAT-Lancet Commission published its second report on 2 October 2025 (The Lancet, vol. 406), the first full update since 2019. Justice now sits alongside health and sustainability as an equal aim: fewer than 1% of people currently live inside the "safe and just space" the report defines.

The Planetary Health Diet keeps its plant-rich shape: red meat about once a week, dairy about once a day, and eggs, poultry and fish about twice a week. The estimate of early deaths the diet could prevent rises from about 11.6 million a year to about 15 million.

Food systems are now assessed against all planetary boundaries (food is the primary driver of breaching five), and the modeling shows about 9.6 billion people could be fed within limits by 2050.

Australia's NHMRC is well into replacing the 2013 Australian Dietary Guidelines. Two public calls for evidence ran in 2025, from 19 February to 14 March (diet and health, all ages) and from 28 July to 18 August (older adults, and diet and sustainability). A Sustainability Working Group is advising on the sustainability evidence for the first time.

NHMRC expects the draft guidelines to open for public comment in 2026, with the revised guidelines published in late 2026. Until then, the 2013 guidelines and the five-food-group model stay current.

Mexico's Secretaría de Economía published an Acuerdo in the Diario Oficial on 31 July 2025 extending the front-of-package warning-label phases. Phase 2 criteria now apply through 31 December 2027, and phase 3, the stricter Tabla 6 nutrient limits for the black warning seals, is put off to 1 January 2028.

Contrary to a widely repeated claim, phase 3 did not begin in October 2025: even before this extension, the regulation's own schedule had phase 3 starting 1 January 2026. The warning-seal system itself (in force since October 2020) is unchanged.

Mexico published general lineamientos in the Diario Oficial on 30 September 2024 governing food and drink in all schools of the national education system: any product carrying front-of-package warning seals may no longer be distributed or sold, with fresh, local food and plain water prioritized.

The rules became obligatory 180 calendar days after they took effect, from late March 2025 (the education secretariat set 29 March 2025), across basic, upper-secondary and higher education.

The BZfE revised its portion pyramid on 25 September 2024 to align with the DGE's 2024 recommendations. It keeps 22 daily portion blocks, but rearranges them.

Fruit and vegetables merge into one five-portion group, dairy drops from three blocks to two, legumes join the protein block, and nuts get their own block on the fats row. Oils and fats were recolored from red to yellow, so only Extras stay red.

The SGE and the federal BLV published new Swiss dietary recommendations in September 2024, the first revision of the food pyramid since 2011.

Legumes move from the grains tier into the daily protein group, dairy becomes its own group of two to three portions, and nuts and seeds get a daily group of their own (a small handful). Meat is capped at two to three times a week, counting poultry and processed meat.

Sustainability is now stated alongside health as a goal of its own.

Austria published new national dietary recommendations on 25 July 2024, issued for the health ministry by GÖG, AGES and ÖGE, with redesigned pyramid graphics following in autumn 2024.

For the first time there are two versions, “Ich esse alles” and “Ich esse vegetarisch”, plus a “gesunder Teller” plate: half vegetables and fruit, a quarter whole grains and potatoes, a quarter protein, mostly from plants.

Legumes get their own category (at least three times a week), and dairy drops from three portions to two.

The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung published new food-based dietary recommendations in March 2024, formally replacing the long-taught “10 Regeln der DGE”. The old page now redirects.

What is new: legumes at least once a week (125 g cooked), a small daily handful of nuts (about 25 g), dairy twice a day instead of three times, and at most 300 g of meat and sausage a week.

The DGE-Ernährungskreis was revised alongside it. The circle no longer publishes segment percentages and now states a balance of more than three-quarters plant to less than one-quarter animal foods.