Fruit and vegetables for primary schoolchildren

Citation

(1999), "Fruit and vegetables for primary schoolchildren", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 99 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/nfs.1999.01799cab.007

Fruit and vegetables for primary schoolchildren

Fruit and vegetables for primary schoolchildren

A MAFF funded workshop has been held to consider ways of increasing fruit and vegetable consumption among primary schoolchildren. Professor Fergus Lowe described his work using a video and associated rewards to children who try and eat fruit and vegetables. Professor Annie Anderson outlined her proposed research using resources in class, work with school food providers in canteens, peer-led tuckshops, a parents' fruit and vegetable club and news sheets featuring fruit and vegetable characters. The most promising approaches will then be used in a more targeted intervention. Dr Margo Barker will pursue an innovative approach using art and play therapy to determine whether painting, dance or drama can change children's attitudes to fruit and vegetables and encourage them to enjoy and eat more of them. Dr Laurence Moore will test the effectiveness of fruit tuckshops as a means of increasing children's enjoyment of fruit in a large number of schools in Bristol. The aim of all these interventions is to find the one that is most successful which can be used in schools throughout the country.