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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

Literature
Apple

 


Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat Carrots
Home Grown Facts
Veggie Facts
Literature
Carrots

Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat Green Beans
Home Grown Facts
Veggie Facts
Literature
Green Beans

Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat Oranges
Home Grown Facts
Veggie Facts
Literature
Orange

Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat Pears
Home Grown Facts
Veggies Facts
Literature

Pear

Nutrition Facts
Reasons to Eat Sweet Potatoes
Home Grown Facts
Veggie Facts
Differences
Literature
Sweet Potatoes
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