Cut fruit and vegetables up and divide into discrete servings

Submitter: Laura Barnes

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Description

Title

Cut fruit and vegetables up and divide into discrete servings

Issue Date

2016

Keyword(s)

• Food waste -- Source reduction (Waste management)
• Green Lunchroom Challenge
• School lunchrooms -- Environmental aspects
• Food service -- Schools -- Environmental aspects

Abstract

Sometimes if you want to change behavior, you need to make the desired behavior easier for people. Consider younger students with smaller mouths, with many of their first teeth still in place. It can be easier for them to eat fruit and vegetables which have been cut up into smaller, bite-sized pieces, rather than biting into the same items left whole. Smaller pieces are also easier for smaller hands to hold. Studies show that slicing produce can make students more apt to try it and eat it. The popularity of pre-cut, packaged fruit and vegetables (e.g. bags of apple slices, tubs of cubed melon, baby carrots, etc.) in grocery stores suggests that even older students and adults are drawn to the convenience of cut produce.

Publisher

Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center

Series/Report Name or Number

Green Lunchroom Challenge Food Presentation Activity

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

Funded by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5

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