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Exhibit 544

Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020, Eighth Edition

Exhibit 544 ยท Policy document

Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015-2020, Eighth Edition

The Key Recommendation from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines to limit consumption of dietary cholesterol to 300 mg per day is not included in the 2015 edition, but this change does not suggest that dietary cholesterol is no longer important to consider when building healthy eating patterns.

Final eighth edition. Removes the numeric cholesterol limit while keeping a 10 percent saturated-fat ceiling and advising people to eat as little dietary cholesterol as possible.

Source
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture
Date
7 January 2016
Quoted from
Chapter 1, p. 32
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://odphp.health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/2015-2020_Dietary_Guidelines.pdf
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding AGR-4.5
Primary record The 2015 advisory committee recommended dropping the 300 mg per day dietary cholesterol limit, and the 2015-2020 guidelines dropped it. Both kept a ceiling of 10 percent of calories from saturated fat.