In an effort to get Americans to at least go through the motions of a healthier diet, the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is now recommending individuals consume three servings of foods every day that simply include the word fruit on the box. Though we have in the past advised eating a minimum of three pieces of actual fruit per day, it is now acceptable to eat any food labeled with the word fruit, including variations such as fruity, fruit-a-licious, or fruit-blasted, FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters, also noting that sweetened cereal or gummies shaped like fruit are entirely permissible under the agencys new guidelines. If it smells somewhat like fruit, or even if theres a cartoon strawberry or orange on the wrapper, thats sufficient at this point. The FDAs new recommendations are expected to be followed up by other guidelines under which anything successfully chewed and swallowed can now be considered a vegetable. 