For health...eat some food from each group...every day!
Full-colour food chart on black: a wheel of seven coloured wedges, each a food group with drawings and labels, around a medallion of a father, mother and two children walking together under 'U.S. Needs Us Strong, Eat the Basic 7 Every Day'. The technique is faint here; the closest is plain-folks, an ordinary family used as the face of a nutrition instruction.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Agriculture. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-798B (NAID 514288).
Text on the object
For Health...eat some food from each group...every day! GROUP ONE GREEN AND YELLOW VEGETABLES... some raw—some cooked, frozen or canned GROUP TWO ORANGES, TOMATOES, GRAPEFRUIT... or raw cabbage or salad greens GROUP THREE POTATOES AND OTHER VEGETABLES AND FRUITS raw, dried, cooked, frozen or canned GROUP FOUR MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS... fluid, evaporated, dried milk, or cheese GROUP FIVE MEAT, POULTRY, FISH, OR EGGS... or dried beans, peas, nuts, or peanut butter GROUP SIX BREAD, FLOUR, AND CEREALS... Natural whole grain— or enriched or restored GROUP SEVEN BUTTER AND FORTIFIED MARGARINE (with added Vitamin A) U.S. NEEDS US STRONG EAT THE BASIC 7 EVERY DAY U.S. GOVERNMENT CHART IN ADDITION TO THE BASIC 7... EAT ANY OTHER FOODS YOU WANT U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE [imprint:] [illegible]
