| The French food pyramid would be a lot like the food | | | | of fruits and vegetables that are available on the |
| pyramids that we have here in the West. The food | | | | French market. Some of the more uncommon |
| pyramid is presented in diagram form, those foods | | | | international vegetables include truffles. Like a normal |
| which you are supposed to be eating, and the | | | | pyramid, you should be eating between four and |
| recommended level of those foods. The French | | | | seven servings of fruits and vegetables per day. |
| pyramid is exactly the same from that extent. French | | | | The French love their meat and fish. They also have |
| cuisine is some of the most beautiful and diverse in the | | | | some fantastic dairy products including over one |
| world. In fact the French are renowned for their | | | | thousand cheeses of which many are covered by the |
| culinary talents. The French food pyramid includes | | | | European law protecting their designated origin. The |
| many of the same foods that we have on the USDA | | | | more unusual foods in the meat and fish department |
| food pyramid. | | | | that the French enjoy eating include frogs legs, |
| At the bottom level of the French food pyramid is all | | | | escargot (snails to you or me), and of course |
| the grains that you can eat. The French love to eat | | | | horsemeat. Although the French diet is not the |
| bread, croissants, and pastries. So there is a lot of | | | | healthiest on the planet, it must be one of the tastiest |
| focus on white flour products in French cooking. At the | | | | that you can have. |
| next level up in the pyramid are the very diverse range | | | | |