The National School Lunch Program is in place to get children to eat at least one serving of fruit and vegetable while they are in school, helping ensure they meet their daily nutritional requirements ...

Fruit and veggie consumption went up at four schools after rules changed Students threw out large amounts of fruits and veggies before and after changes Participation ...

In the war to get America's children to eat healthier, things are not going well. Student E114 is a case in point. E114 - the identification code she was assigned by researchers studying eating habits ...

URBANA, Ill. - When kids sit down to eat lunch at school, fruits and vegetables may not be their first choice. But with more time at the lunch table, they are more likely to pick up those healthy ...

Offering young children a healthy school lunch doesn’t mean they’ll eat it.While nearly 7 out of 10 school kids put a vegetable on their lunch trays, only about half of them took even one bite of it, ...

These highly-rated vegetarian lunch recipes are lower in carbs, calories, saturated fat and sodium to support healthy blood ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- As part of an initiative to improve school nutrition and wellness, students in some Staten Island schools will enjoy a plant-based recipe in school lunches made from a ...

No one should have expected that putting more vegetables in front of elementary school students would instantly turn them into an army of broccoli fans. Plenty of food has been thrown out since new ...

There’s a way to get school kids to eat more vegetables at lunch, and it has nothing to do with what’s on the menu. Just mess with their schedule, finds a new study published in the journal Preventive ...

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. — The salad bar at John Glenn Middle School comes with instructions. A sign in the Maplewood school’s cafeteria explains that the salad bar as a meal choice includes fruit, vegetables ...

When kids sit down to eat lunch at school, fruits and vegetables may not be their first choice. But with more time at the lunch table, they are more likely to pick up those healthy foods. If we want ...