Industry Responds to New Federal Dietary Guidelines

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The Dannon Company

Producing over 200 cultured, refrigerated dairy products, the Dannon Company issued a release noting that yogurt can be an easy and healthy way to achieve the recommended three servings of dairy per day. Beyond this benefit, Dannon also wrote that many yogurts contain calcium, potassium, and vitamin D “three critical nutrients that were identified in the 2015 DGAs as nutrients of public health concern (those that are under-consumed across the population).” That said, Dannon said there is still more that can be done as Americans eat “less than one cup of yogurt in any given week, compared with nearly double that amount in Canada and five times that in some European countries.”