What the New Dietary Guidelines Mean and Why ROSETTE’S Already Fits

The latest nutrition guidance reflects a shift toward sugar reduction, protein adequacy, and ingredient quality principles we’ve built into ROSETTE’S low carb, sugar-free baking mixes from the start.

The newly released U.S. Dietary Guidelines reflect a continued evolution in how nutrition is understood especially for people focused on blood sugar stability, metabolic health, and long-term sustainability.

These aren’t headline-grabbing reversals, but they are meaningful changes. The guidelines now place greater focus on reducing sugar, prioritizing protein, and choosing foods that promote stable energy and satiety, aligning more closely with how many low carb people eat in real life.

And for us at ROSETTE’S, none of this feels new. These principles are exactly why we created baking mixes designed for people managing blood sugar, carbs, and energy levels.

Where ROSETTE’S Low Carb Baking Mixes Fit In. 

ROSETTE’S creates low carb, sugar-free baking mixes that make it easier to bake at home without the blood sugar spikes traditionally associated with baked goods. Here’s where our products naturally align with the direction these guidelines are heading. Across the updated guidance, several themes stand out:

• Lower sugar intake is a priority. Excess sugar is consistently linked to metabolic issues, and reducing it remains one of the strongest recommendations. ROSETTE’S products have always been sugar-free, not as a trend, but because blood sugar stability matters for long-term health.
• Protein adequacy matters. Higher protein intake is recognized as important for muscle health, aging, and overall resilience.
• Carbohydrate quality matters more than quantity alone. Refined grains and sugars are being deprioritized in favor of more nutrient-dense choices. Our low carb baking mixes support that reality without forcing deprivation or abandoning familiar foods.
• Flexible fat choices are acknowledged. The guidelines allow for a variety of cooking fats, including butter and tallow, recognizing that food preparation should be practical and enjoyable.
• Real food should be enjoyable and sustainable. Nutrition guidelines may debate butter, but people don’t live by spreadsheets. They live by habits. Our baking mixes help people enjoy baked goods, savory and sweet, that don’t spike blood sugar or derail metabolic goals, whether prepared with butter or olive oil.

Those are meaningful shifts and they validate what so many people managing diabetes, insulin resistance, gluten intolerance, or metabolic health have already learned through lived experience.

While the formal recommendation to limit saturated fat to 10% of daily calories remains, nutrition journalist Nina Teicholz reports that the updated guidelines signal a broader shift in emphasis. Animal proteins are more prominent, higher protein intake is encouraged, and traditional cooking fats like butter and tallow are increasingly acknowledged; fats that are already commonly used in our recipes.

At ROSETTE’S, we’ll continue doing what we’ve always done; helping you make small, realistic upgrades that support metabolic health without giving up the foods and traditions you love. Guidelines evolve slowly. Your daily choices don’t have to.