ConAgra Foods Welcomes New Dietary Guidelines as Important Step in Helping Consumers Make More Informed and Nutritious Food Choices.

OMAHA, Neb. -- ConAgra Foods Offers More Than 400 Products in Wellness Portfolio - including Healthy Choice, Hunt's and Egg Beaters - Giving Consumers Good Nutrition, Taste and Convenience for On-the-Go Lifestyles

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE:CAG), one of America's leading packaged-food companies, today praised the 2005 Dietary Guidelines issued by the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS).

"We welcome and applaud the new Dietary Guidelines," said Pat Verduin, senior vice president and director of the Office of Product Quality and Development at ConAgra Foods. "They give Americans a firmer base of information to improve their eating habits and well-being. It also validates our commitment to offer consumers more nutritious food choices that are great tasting, which began with Healthy Choice almost 20 years ago, and now extends to more than 400 ConAgra Foods products."

The new Guidelines - which the USDA will use to overhaul the familiar Food Guide Pyramid and set standards for federal nutrition policy and programs - come as new research shows Americans are engaged more than ever in their food choices, yet are perplexed and turned off by the clamor of ever-changing, often-conflicting fad diets and food advice.

"The challenge now is to translate the Guidelines into consumer awareness and action," said Verduin. "Research confirms that many consumers today are confused and frustrated by a flood of changing, often-conflicting food advice, as they try to make sensible dietary decisions."

CONAGRA FOODS' WELLNESS PRODUCT PORTFOLIO: HEALTHY CHOICE AND MUCH MORE

ConAgra Foods and its brands have focused on providing consumers more food choices with the nutrition, taste and convenience to meet their individual dietary needs and fast-paced schedules. This includes a wellness portfolio that got its start in the 1980s when Healthy Choice was born, committed to quality nutrition, wholesome ingredients and no compromise on taste. Such was its success that it grew from 10 original entrees to a full array of meals, sauces, soups, deli meats, breads - even popcorn and dessert - all with the distinctive green packaging letting consumers know it's good for them and tastes great. All products in ConAgra Foods' wellness portfolio - which today number more than 400 meals and other foods - embody the philosophy that launched Healthy Choice almost two decades ago: foods made from real ingredients and prepared in such a way that high-quality flavor and nutrition are maintained.

ConAgra Foods and its brands continue to improve the nutritional profile across the company's product line to help consumers meet their individual mealtime needs, morning, noon and night. Its culinary experts, nutritionists and dietitians have worked to identify opportunities to enhance nutrients and the goodness of its foods - and reduce calories, trans fats, saturated fats, sodium and sugars where possible - to meet a responsible standard and give consumers a wide variety of nutritious, convenient and great-tasting foods from which they can choose balanced, nutritious daily diets.

ABOUT CONAGRA FOODS

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE:CAG) is one of North America's leading packaged-food companies, serving grocery retailers, as well as restaurants and foodservice establishments. ConAgra Foods' wellness products include: Butterball, Culturelle, DAVID Sunflower Seeds, Egg Beaters, Fleischmann's, Golden Cuisine, Healthy Choice, Hunt's, Lightlife, Orville Redenbacher's Smart Pop!, Rosarita, PAM, Peter Pan, Ultragrain and Van Camp's. For more information, visit www.conagrafoods.com.