Partner with MyPlate.food — Free Co-Branded Nutrition Resources

Universities, councils on aging, schools, clinics, and health nonprofits link, embed, and adopt MyPlate.food — stable replacements for retired MyPlate.gov tools, 1,072 preserved USDA recipes in five languages, and printable sets built for your audience. Independent, mission-aligned, no cost.

🤝 Partnerships

Bring MyPlate to the people you serve

When USDA retired MyPlate.gov in January 2026, the links in thousands of lesson plans, resource pages, and patient handouts went dead. MyPlate.food is the free, independent home those links can point to now — and we build resources with mission-aligned organizations, not just for them.

MyPlate.food is independent and not affiliated with the USDA; we rebuilt the tools from public USDA data and cite it as a source.

1,072
USDA recipes preserved
5
languages · en es fr de ko
18
free calculators

Who it's for

Built for the organizations people already trust

If your audience used to lean on MyPlate.gov, these are the people we can serve together.

Cooperative extensionsSNAP-Ed & EFNEP teams updating statewide nutrition materials.
Councils on aging & senior centersOlder-adult programs that need recipes and handouts to share.
Schools & teachersClassrooms replacing the dead ChooseMyPlate.gov links in their lessons.
Public-health nonprofitsCommunity organizations pointing members to trustworthy guidance.
Publishers & education platformsEditorial and courseware teams embedding tools and citing sources.
Clinics & health systemsCare teams routing patients to open-math calculators, and an ad-free version for their own site.

Free, today

What you can use right now

Everything here is live and free. Link it, embed it, or assign it today — a partnership shapes it around your audience.

  • Stable replacement links for every retired MyPlate.gov resource — 1,072 preserved USDA recipes, the calculators, and printable handouts, all at permanent URLs.
  • An embeddable MyPlate calculator — one copy-paste snippet that always renders the current version, live from MyPlate.food.
  • Classroom-safe student pages: the quizzes and Build a Day run no ads and no replay tracking, so they're clean to put in front of students.
  • A cite-this-page tool that formats a reference for your syllabus, resource list, or care materials.

Where to grab these

The embed snippet, badge, and citation live on For Educators & Professionals; the no-ads, no-replay classroom pledge is on For Teachers. Or point people straight at the recipe library and printables.

Built together

What we can make for your audience

For mission-aligned organizations these are free — we co-create, you carry it to the people you serve.

  • Co-branded printable sets shaped for your audience — your name alongside ours on handouts your members or students actually use.
  • Curated recipe collections pulled from the 1,072-recipe library for a program, season, or dietary focus.
  • Localized materials — the recipes and tools already exist in Spanish, French, German, and Korean for the communities you reach.

A partnership already in motion

A statewide network of councils on aging is adopting our recipes for its members — and we're building it a co-branded older-adults printable set to match. If that shape fits your community, tell us your audience and we'll scope one with you.

Recipe licensing

Using the recipe collection: free to cite, licensed for products

USDA published these 1,072 recipes in the public domain; when the MyPlate.gov website shut down in January 2026 they went dark. We preserved the full collection and rebuilt it — cleaned and completed data, structured nutrition and food-group amounts, images remastered (AI-upscaled) from the originals, and full translations into Spanish, French, Korean, and German.

  • The underlying USDA recipes are U.S. federal works in the public domain — you never need our permission for those, commercial use included.
  • Citing and linking our version is free for everyone, commercial or not — quote a recipe, link the page, credit MyPlate.food.
  • Reusing our version — the structured data, filled-in nutrition, remastered images, and translations — is free with credit for classrooms, clinics, extension programs, and non-profit nutrition education.
  • Commercial reuse runs on a license: apps, ad-supported sites, and published products. Bulk exports (JSON/CSV), print-resolution image sets, curated selections, and ongoing feeds are scoped and priced per project.
  • The free API and MCP server stay open for live, per-request calls, commercial use included — those limits live on the API page.

The credit line

“Recipes from the USDA MyPlate Kitchen collection, preserved at MyPlate.food” — with a link to myplate.food/recipes wherever it fits. For custom licensing or bulk delivery, write hello@myplate.food.

Why orgs choose us

A resource you can stand behind

Before you route a member, student, or patient somewhere, you check that it holds up. Here's what holds up.

  • Nutrition.gov — the USDA's own nutrition portal — already links our recipes on its Online Tools page.
  • The National Council on Aging (NCOA) links to us too.
  • Every calculator shows its formula and named sources, and we pin the IOM 2005 edition MyPlate.gov used — so links you adopt don't silently change their math under you.
  • When the guidelines change, we track it in the open, so a resource you point to stays current instead of quietly going stale.

See for yourself

Read the full methodology and sources, or follow updates on Guideline Watch.

Tell us what your audience needs

One email starts it. Say who you serve and what you're replacing, and we'll come back with what we can build together — no cost for mission-aligned organizations.

hello@myplate.food