Know Your Nutrition
Let’s explore some of your favorite fruits and vegetables!
Fruits and vegetables taste great and offer a bounty of nutrition. If you are not sure how much you should eat every day, visit
www.cachampionsforchange.net
or www.mypyramid.gov.
To learn more about other fruits and vegetables you can try, visit www.harvestofthemonth.com.
Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat Apples
Home Grown Facts
The Legend of Johnny
Appleseed
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Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat
Carrots
Home Grown Facts
Veggie
Facts
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Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat
Green Beans
Home Grown Facts
Veggie
Facts
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Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat
Oranges
Home Grown Facts
Veggie Facts
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Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat
Pears
Home Grown Facts
Veggies
Facts
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Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat
Sweet Potatoes
Home Grown Facts
Veggie
Facts
Differences
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Information courtesy of Harvest of the Month.
For more ideas on how you can expand your nutrition knowledge, try these other great sites:
Dole Superkids! A great site with music, games, a cookbook, fruit & veggie encyclopedia, contests and facts.
Got Milk? Visit here if you are thirsty for dairy trivia, games and more fun stuff.
How Food Works.
From Marshall Brain’s “How Stuff Works” site.
Kidnetic.com. A unique Web site that offers fun family recipes (how about some Gross Out Delights like Blood and Guts Soup?!) and a learning section that answers kids burning questions about health and nutrition.
Kid's Sites.
Activities for children: All kinds of interesting things from the Food and Nutrition Information Center.
MooMilk. Want to learn “mooooo”re about cows and milk? Visit this site for fun facts, contests, games and recipes.
Nutrition Explorations For
Kids. National Dairy Council's Kid Zone.
Smart-Mouth.org. Gives kids tips on how to resist food industry marketing, and how to fight back. Interesting and powerful stuff.
Sunkist Kids. Orange you smart! Play games and learn about citrus fruit.
Last updated 7/2008
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