Foods tumble down five lanes, one per food group. Catch them into the right groups to meet each target without overloading any single one.
Each lane is a food group: grains, vegetables, fruits, protein and dairy. Foods fall from the top; steer the falling item to the correct lane and drop it so every group fills toward its target band. Overload a group past its maximum and the excess spills for a penalty. Hit all five targets within the calorie budget to balance the plate.
Plate Balance is a falling-food sorting game about building a balanced plate and energy balance.
Steering falling foods into lanes by food group is the plate model of nutrition teaching, the successor to the food pyramid that the US adopted as MyPlate in 2011.
Sorting at speed is the original pressure.
The plate replaced the pyramid because proportion is easier to read than hierarchy. Groups shown side by side say how much of a meal each should occupy, which is a question people actually face — unlike a pyramid, which says what to eat less of without saying what a meal looks like.
Plate Balance is a falling-food sorting game about building a balanced plate and energy balance. It's an original free browser game built for PlayPendium.