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| Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
DHHS. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Requires Internet Explorer or Netscape 7.0
For information on the fruit and vegetable consumption of youth, click on a state, territory or location. Choose "Dietary Behaviors," and then your topic of interest.
Available data includes the percentage of students who ate five or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day during the past seven days and youth consumption of fruit juice, fruit, potatoes, salad, carrots and vegetables. |
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| General Information |
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| Fruits & Veggies—More Matters™ Health Professionals Page
DHHS. CDC. National Cancer Institute ; Produce for Better Health Foundation.
Information and resources to help you learn more about the National Fruit & Vegetable Program and help you encourage others to eat a colorful variety of fruits and vegetables. |
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| Best Buys/Beware Compare (PDF|93 KB)
University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.
The Best Buys PDF format handout lists 5 points to consider when purchasing fruit or fruit juice and a buying chart showing fruits in season. The second page entitled "Beware…Compare" discusses the difference between 100% fruit juice products, and juice drinks, fruitades, and imitation fruit drinks. |
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 | How to Buy...
USDA. Agricultural Research Service.
Provides information on purchasing fresh, frozen and canned fruits and vegetables at the grocery store. Includes alphabetical list of fruits and vegetables and selection tips. |
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| Reports |
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 | Are Lower Income Households Willing and Able To Budget for Fruits and Vegetables?
USDA. Economic Research Service.
Households have a number of needs and wants that all compete for scarce resources. Given this situation, are low-income households, in particular, generally willing and able to budget for healthful foods like fruits and vegetables, or are other goods and services, including other foods, more of a priority? |
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| Fruit and Vegetable Consumption by Low-Income Americans: Would a Price Reduction Make a Difference?
USDA. Economic Research Service.
Americans’ diets, particularly those of low-income households, fall short of Government recommendations in the quantity of fruits and vegetables consumed. Some proposals suggest that a price subsidy for those products would encourage low-income Americans to consume more of them. This study estimated that a 10-percent subsidy would encourage low-income Americans to increase their consumption of fruits by 2.1-5.2 percent and vegetables by 2.1-4.9 percent. |
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 | Price Trends Are Similar for Fruits, Vegetables, and Snack Foods
USDA. Economic Research Service.
An increase in the price of fruits and vegetables relative to less healthy foods could reduce consumers’ incentives to purchase fruits and vegetables and result in less healthy diets. For commonly consumed fresh fruits and vegetables, analysis of price trends reveals a price decline similar to that of dessert and snack foods. This price trend evidence suggests that the price of a healthy diet has not changed relative to an unhealthy one. |
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| Younger Consumers Exhibit Less Demand for Fresh Vegetables
USDA. Economic Research Service.
Using data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey, this study identifies
how a household’s spending on fresh vegetables for at-home consumption
depends on the head of household’s birth cohort. People born more recently are found to spend less money for fresh vegetables than older Americans do. August 2009 |
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 | Healthy People 2010: Nutrition and Overweight
United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Objectives 19-5 and 19-6 address national health objectives pertaining to fruit and vegetable intake respectively. November 2000 |
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| How Much Do Americans Pay for Fruits and Vegetables?
USDA. Economic Research Service.
This analysis uses AC Nielsen Homescan data on 1999 household food purchases from all types of retail outlets to estimate an annual retail price per pound and per serving for 69 forms of fruits and 85 forms of vegetables. July 2004 |
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| Research |
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| Online Tools |
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 | NCI Visuals Online Database: Food
National Cancer Institute.
Contains images from the collections of the Communication Services Branch and Mass Media Office of the Office of Communications, National Cancer Institute. |
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 | USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
USDA. National Agricultural Library.
Contains approximately 175 online images of fruit watercolors. All of the fruit varieties featured in the collection were introduced and described in the Report of the Pomologist between 1886 and 1900. |
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Last Modified: Aug 24, 2009 |
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