Based on the new dietary guidelines released January 7, most Americans aren't eating what the government says they should. (Not all of the government's recommendations are aligned with the latest science, but much of the advice — to eat more more vegetables and less sugar, for example — is sound.)
Most of us don't eat enough vegetables, fruits, dairy, or oils; and we eat too much sugar, saturated fats, and sodium. We're doing okay when it comes to grains and protein, though.
You can see how each food group stacks up in this chart, where the bars represent the percent of Americans, and the orange means they're not meeting the recommendations — either eating too much of a bad thing or too little of a good one:
Scroll down to see how we're all doing, on average.