09/01/26
The Medically Tailored Grocery Nutrition Standards establish a clinically grounded, operationally feasible framework for delivering nutritious, condition-appropriate food across the charitable food system. Reviewed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and informed by national frameworks such as Coding 4 Food and insights from the Elevance Health Foundation Food as Medicine 3 (FAM3) initiative and network-wide program analysis, these standards support the prevention and management of diet-related chronic disease while strengthening alignment between food systems and healthcare.
At the core of this framework are the Healthy Eating Research (HER) Nutrition Guidelines, which rank foods based on sodium, saturated fat, and added or total sugar to assess nutrition quality. As a widely adopted system across the network, HER provides a consistent foundation for evaluating inventory, guiding procurement, and ensuring that food distributed through food banks meets defined nutrition standards…
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