Trenton Special School District

Project Description

Tasty Colors Encourage Kids to Choose “Five a Day the Color Way”

To encourage students to eat five or more servings of colorful fruits and vegetables every day, Trenton Elementary staff decided to offer samples of different fruits and veggies at a variety of events.

A different fruit or vegetable was spotlighted on each day, including kiwi, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, mandarin oranges (halos), baby carrots, oranges, and gala apples. On the last serving day a goodie bag with fruit (kiwi and golden apples) was sent home with each child.

The School Nutrition and Coordinated School Health departments partnered to provide information to the students about the health benefits of the particular fruits and vegetables.

Successes

• Students were excited to try the fruit.
• The school saw an increase in fruit consumption since the beginning of the year and they have less fruit that goes into the garbage can.

Challenges

• The main challenge Trenton faced was working out the delivery of the fruit to the students.