Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program Participation in Elementary Schools in the United States and Availability of Fruits and Vegetables in School Lunch Meals

2012 ◽  
Vol 112 (6) ◽  
pp. 921-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
Punam Ohri-Vachaspati ◽  
Lindsey Turner ◽  
Frank J. Chaloupka
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
School Lunch ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fresh Fruit ◽  
Program Participation ◽  
Fruit And Vegetable

Fruit and Vegetable Intake in the United States: The Baseline Survey of the Five a Day for Better Health Program

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 352-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy F. Subar ◽  
Jerianne Heimendinger ◽  
Blossom H. Patterson ◽  
Susan M. Krebs-Smith ◽  
Elizabeth Pivonka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Vegetable Intake ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fruit And Vegetable Intake ◽  
Baseline Survey ◽  
Fruit And Vegetable

Purpose. The purpose of the Five A Day Baseline Survey was to assess fruit and vegetable intake and associated factors among US adults. Design. Questionnaires querying frequency of intake of 33 fruits and vegetables, as well as demographics, attitudes, and knowledge related to fruits and vegetables were administered by telephone. Setting. The study was a nationally representative random digit dial survey conducted by telephone in the summer of 1991; response rate was 42.8%. Subjects. Respondents were 2811 US adults (including an oversample of African-Americans and Hispanics). Measures. Mean and median self-reported intakes of fruits and vegetables were calculated. Estimated servings per week were adjusted on the basis of responses to summary questions regarding overall fruit and vegetable intakes. Results. Median intake of fruits and vegetables was 3.4 servings per day. Linear regressions (accounting for no more than 10% of the variation) showed that education, income, and smoking status were predictors of fruit and vegetable intake and that intake increased with education, income, and nonsmoking status. Women had higher intakes than men at all ages; these differences between men and women increased with age. Fruit and vegetable intakes increased with age for whites and Hispanics, but not for African-Americans. Conclusions. Fruit and vegetable intake among adults in the United States is lower than the recommended minimum of five daily servings. These data will be useful in targeting campaign efforts and in assessing progress of the Five A Day for Better Health Program.

scholarly journals Breedlove Dehydrated Foods Feeding Hungry People Worldwide in Partnership with Fruit and Vegetable Growers

HortScience ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 605D-605
Author(s):  
Roland E. Roberts ◽  
Kenneth Gray ◽  
Joseph J. Bryant
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fruit And Vegetable ◽  
Charitable Organizations ◽  
The World ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Horticultural Products

Breedlove Dehydrated Foods (BDF), the largest charitable dehydration plant in the world, is capable of dehydrating 6,000 lb. raw product/hr. BDF dehydrates and distributes nutritious fruits, vegetables, and legumes to charitable organizations which feed hungry people. At least 35,617 people die from hunger in our world every day! Thousands of tons of nutritious but slightly imperfect horticultural products are wasted yearly in the United States. Donations totaling $7.8 million funded construction of BDF. Texas A&M and Texas Tech Universities provided expertise to plan and operate BDF. BDF dehydrated over 30 million lb. of fruits and vegetables in the initial two years of operation. BDF is a model of people focused on an unusually high goal and working together.

scholarly journals Analyzing proprietary, private label, and non-brands in fresh produce purchases

2020 ◽  
pp. 147078532094833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary William Anesbury ◽  
Kristin Jürkenbeck ◽  
Timofei Bogomolov ◽  
Svetlana Bogomolova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Fruits And Vegetables ◽  
Fresh Produce ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Label ◽  
Consumer Loyalty ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Fast Moving Consumer Goods ◽  
Private Label Brands ◽  
Analytical Approaches

When purchasing packaged products within a supermarket, consumers choose between proprietary or private label brands. However, when purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables, non-branded produce is the dominant option—with proprietary and private label brands only recently becoming available. Previous fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) research finds that proprietary and private label brands affect consumer loyalty—however, no research exists for fresh categories. This research is the first to determine the effect of emerging brands in fresh categories on consumer buying behavior. Our research examines consumers’ loyalty toward proprietary, private label, or non-branded fresh fruits and vegetables and the level of customer sharing between these options, using analytical approaches applicable to FMCG categories. The panel data contains nearly 46,000 households making over 8 million purchases in the United States during 2015. Results show that proprietary, private label, and now non-branded fresh produce have expected loyalty levels, for their size, and consumers share their purchases across the three options (i.e., consumers are not loyal to just one option). The study analyzes and interprets purchase data in fresh categories offering marketing academics and practitioners actionable advice for working with fresh produce purchase data.

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