Background:

This paper aimed to address, from a critical approach, the dominant discourses on healthy eating in the field of health promotion.

Reflection:

Explorations on the subject allowed to evidence the tensions linked to the normalization of consumption patterns as a strategy of dietary moralization that is installed in the discourses of healthy eating.

Conclusion:

These discourses have been influenced by a normalizing narrative that has contributed to the massification of recommendations on food consumption regardless of the socio-economic, cultural, and symbolic particularities of population groups. A uniformity of food discourses is identified, uprooted from their social and cultural context. The healthy diet is visualized as a new organizing category. It is necessary to reconsider recommendations on healthy eating so as not to deepen inequalities, and to recover food as a social fact and political object.

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