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Explore our collection of evidence-based resources for healthcare professionals.
Access practical tips – like how to select and prepare lean cuts of pork – along with food pairings and nutrition facts to help your patients and clients enjoy delicious and nutritious meals with lean pork.
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5 Steps to Flavorful Healthy Eating
Five simple steps for creating flavorful, nutritious meals that reflect your favorite foods and cultural traditions while considering convenience, preparation and budget.
Baby’s First Bite
Foods in the first year of life set the stage for a lifetime of good health. As a first complementary food, pork can help your baby with the important task of growth and development.
Build a Better Sandwich
Discover simple ways to build a flavorful, nutritious sandwich with whole grains, produce and protein—including pork—while keeping meals easy, customizable and budget-friendly.
Build a Nutritious Plate with Pork
Learn how pork can be part of a balanced, nutrient-rich plate alongside fruits, vegetables, whole grains and dairy, with simple meal ideas and recipes for inspiration.
Celebrating Personal Plates: Facilitator Guide
A guide for nutrition and health professionals to help individuals build nutritious eating patterns that celebrate cultural traditions, personal preferences and familiar flavors.
Comparing Pork And Common Proteins
Use this guide as a reference for key
benefits, simple recipes and culinary pro
tips for the most popular pork cuts.
Diabetic Friendly Diet
Pork not only tastes delicious but it is also affordable and nutritious. It can be a fantastic addition to any meal even if you have diabetes.
Eating Well with Traditional Flavors: Sample Menu
Explore culturally inspired foods and meal ideas that show how traditional flavors from around the world can be incorporated into a balanced, nutritious eating pattern.
Efficient Eats: Cooking for 1, 2, or 3
Practical tips for cooking nutritious meals for smaller households, with ideas for batch cooking, smart leftovers and easy meal prep that saves time and reduces waste.
Efficient Eats: Planning and Prepping
Simple planning, shopping and meal-prep tips to make nutritious meals easier while saving time, reducing food waste and making the most of your grocery budget.
Encouraging Excellent Eating Early
Mealtime is family time. Even ten minutes of eating together can increase children’s fruit and vegetable intake. Start this habit with your baby or toddler by bringing them to the table with you!
Encouraging Excellent Eating Early – English & Spanish
Español Disponible: Practical tips for parents and caregivers to introduce young children to nutritious foods, new flavors and positive mealtime habits that can support healthy eating from an early age.
Encouraging Excellent Eating Early Spanish
¿Te interesa que tu pequeño se aficione a la alimentación saludable desde el principio? Con algunos consejos sobre cómo alimentar a los niños y recomendaciones para fomentar una alimentación equilibrada y saludable, ¡cualquiera puede convertirse en un experto en nutrición infantil!
Make Every Bite Count With Pork
Pork is a convenient and delicious high-quality source of protein that can help you stay on track when seeking to lose weight or if you are on a weight-loss medication.
Pigs Don’t Fly
Did you know that pork is the world’s most popular protein? Uncover pork facts you may not know – including the many essential nutrients that are found in lean pork.
Planning For Savings: Leftovers Edition
Leftovers don’t have to be an afterthought. Make a plan to repurpose leftovers for future meals and snacks.
Pork and Chronic Disease
Fresh pork is a nutrient-dense, high-quality protein that fits into dietary patterns designed to manage risk factors of chronic diseases, including heart disease, obesity, prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.
Pork and Plants Flavor Wheel
With our pork pairings flavor wheel as your guide, you can experience its ‘world of flavors.’
Pork and Sports Performance
Pork is a powerhouse protein that helps you recover, rebuild and come back stronger.
Pork In School Menus
Explore flexible pork options for school menus that meet Meat/Meat Alternate requirements while delivering the nutrition students need to learn and thrive.
Pork is Good for You
Explore the nutritional benefits of lean pork and learn how to achieve perfectly juicy and delicious results by cooking pork to the proper cooking temperature. provides a visual guide on how to cook pork tenderloin to the perfect temperature for delicious results.
Pork is the Ultimate Carrier Food
Researchers think because pork is a carrier food, more than 2.5 million children and 5.7 million adults reach their potassium recommendations daily. Learn about the nutrients pork provides as the ultimate carrier food.
Pork On The Menu K-12
Practical, USDA meal-compliant pork recipes designed for K–12 school kitchens—combining nutrition, flavor and operational efficiency to help schools serve balanced meals students will enjoy.
Pork On The Plate K-12 Recipe Book
A Showcase of Tasty and Nutritious Pork Recipes for K-12 Cafeterias and CACFP Programs.
Pork Supporting GLP 1 Users
Pork Delivers a Nutritional Advantage when appetites are reduced, every bite matters. Pork provides complete, high-quality protein and 10+ essential nutrients.
Pork: Good for the Planet
Learn how America’s pig farmers have made dramatic improvements in how they raise pigs to to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
Pro Tips For Pork Cuts
Use this guide as a reference for key
benefits, simple recipes and culinary pro
tips for the most popular pork cuts.

