The MyPlate.food changelog: new calculators, German as a fifth language, the MyPlate Tracker, revived printables and quizzes, meal plans by calorie level, and the German-speaking guidelines hub.
What we've shipped, newest first — new calculators, new languages, the MyPlate Tracker, and the guideline hubs. Tracking how the official guidelines themselves change? That's Guideline Watch.
July 11, 2026 · Guideline Watch · New section
Official dietary guidance changed a lot lately: the US retired MyPlate as its federal icon in January, and Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Mexico, and South Korea all revised their guidance within the last two years. Most of those changes got almost no plain-language coverage.
Guideline Watch is our answer: a dated log of what changed in the guidelines and food rules we document — one entry per real change, a flag so you can see at a glance which country it applies to, a plain "what it means" line, and a link to every primary source. It launches with 17 entries across eight jurisdictions, plus the EAT-Lancet Commission and the ADA.
Entries with real depth get their own full-analysis page — starting with the ADA's 2026 Standards of Care and South Korea's 2025 nutrient reference values. And it has an RSS feed, if you like your updates the old way.
Why it matters: One page that answers "did the guidelines change?" — dated, sourced, and updated as it happens at Guideline Watch.
July 11, 2026 · Guidelines · German
Eight new pages document the BZfE Ernährungspyramide, the DGE-Ernährungskreis and its 2024 recommendations, and the Austrian and Swiss models — all four renewed in 2024.
It includes an interactive Portionsrechner (a tap-to-fill day tracker across the 22 portion blocks) and a D-A-CH energy-requirements lookup built on the published DGE/ÖGE tables. In all five languages.
Why it matters: Our first German-primary guideline hub — explore it from the Ernährungspyramide home.
July 10, 2026 · Languages
The full site — calculators, food groups, portions, and all 1,072 recipes — now ships in German, alongside English, Spanish, Korean, and French.
New German-first pages include the BMI-Rechner and the Kalorienrechner.
Why it matters: German joins as our fifth language, top to bottom.
July 10, 2026 · Calculator
Every calculator result can now be shared as a link that reopens the exact same numbers forever, even as we add new options — the snapshot travels in the link itself and never touches our servers.
Why it matters: Made for clinicians and teachers who need a result to stay put.
July 10, 2026 · UX
Dietary guidelines moved into the Learn menu as a directory, the main calculator is now simply the “MyPlate Calculator”, and the language menu shows full native names (Deutsch, Español, …).
Why it matters: Less to scan, clearer labels.
July 2, 2026 · MyPlan · Tracker
The tracker is now a full dashboard section — a calorie ring, a USDA-faithful plate that fills by food group, a navigable week strip, and bottom-sheet logging.
Install it to your home screen and it works as an app. See the calorie tracker overview.
Why it matters: Logging a meal now visibly fills your plate.
June 18, 2026 · Educators
The USDA “10 Tips” series returns as 12 print-ready tip sheets — plus 14 Spanish ones, including two recovered originals — and the food-group quizzes are back with the original questions.
Why it matters: Free for classrooms.
June 15, 2026 · Calculators
Seven new tools joined — 1RM, water, FFMI, waist ratios, lean mass, and weight-loss percentage among them.
Every calculator now carries a “Formula & sources” section with the actual equations, rendered from the same code that computes your numbers.
Why it matters: More tools, and every one shows its work.
June 12, 2026 · Planner
Free 7-day meal plans built entirely from the USDA recipe corpus, at every calorie level, with a weekly planner and print layouts.
Why it matters: A week of meals at your calorie target, ready to print.