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Article: Kids not eating enough fruits, vegetables: big brand green pea packers cry the blues.
- Article from:
- Quick Frozen Foods International
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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In spite of efforts to increase fruit and vegetable intake to five daily servings, America's children are still falling short of the USDA recommendations for consumption.
According to a national survey sponsored by the Frozen Vegetable Council, a packer-oriented organization, children ages 6 to 17 years old average less than four daily servings of fruits and vegetables - two-and-one-half servings eaten at home and just over one serving eaten at school.
The survey, conducted by Bruskin-Goldring Research, asked 500 mothers about their children's fruit and vegetable consumption at home and at school. Not surprisingly, nearly all of those surveyed know how many ...