
Healthiest Eating US States Revealed by Maps
January 25, 2025 | Source: Newsweek | by Hatty Willmoth
Utah is the U.S. state with the healthiest diet, according to a recent report—closely followed by Colorado, Washington, Minnesota and Vermont.
A report by product life cycle management company Trace One gave each state a “Healthy Diet Index” based on nine factors.
These included how many of the state’s adults ate fruit on a daily basis, ate vegetables every day, drank much alcohol, drank sugar-sweetened beverages every day, faced food insecurity and lived with diet-related health problems—such as overweight or obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.
The report used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Agriculture to assess each metric and then calculate each state’s overall score.