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Guinea Pig Compendium: Feeding and Nutrition
This site describes several common guinea pig foods, including hay, pellets, fruits, and vegetables. It also covers a guinea pig's need for Vitamin C, along with treats they enjoy.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Food for Thought: Vegetable Group
Here, you can read up on the nutritional values of vegetables and on various ways to prepare vegetables to "Help your child enjoy," eating them. Also, get children eager to eat their vegetables by involving them in the kitchen and food...
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Mississippi Public Broadcasting: Ed Said
Meet Ed Said, a nine-year-old purple-haired hard-core fruit-and-veggie rapper. Learn nutrition facts from Ed by watching and playing his videos and songs. Includes many print-and-color activities about eating healthy fruit- and...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Fruit and Veggies Matter
Learners explore fruits and vegetables. The activity includes a questionnaire that asks an individual's age, sex, and level of physical activity to determine the fruits and vegetables needed in an individual's diet. The resource consists...
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Produce for Better Health Foundation: Food Champs: Fruit and Veggie Champs
Advice, recipes, tips, nutrition information, games, and activities to help kids learn why it's so important to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables.
University of Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts: Vegetables
At this site from the University of Massachusetts you can read about vegetables, which are high in nutritional value but low in fat. After reading this brief article, take a quiz to test your knowledge of the vegetable food group.
US Department of Agriculture
U.s. Department of Agriculture: Choose My Plate
The U.S. Government's official resource for sound nutritional information points out that eating right can be as simple as increasing some categories of foods while reducing others. Basic information on food groups combined with...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Fizzy's Lunch Lab
Fizzy's Lunch Lab provides an informative overview of food and nutrition topics with an emphasis on fruits, vegetables and whole grains. The Lunch Lab will provide practical and positive examples of healthy eating and regular exercise...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Lesson 8: Color Your World
In this lesson, students play a guessing game to explore different fruits and vegetables, emphasizing the diversity of colorful foods available for them to eat. Students prepare and eat a colorful, plant-based salad and brainstorm ways...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Body and Mind: Cool Treats, You Can Have It All
Eat fruits and vegetables every day. This website will help you do just that. Learn simple recipes for healthy dips, salads, smoothies, desserts, and veggie dishes, all of which are packed with the vitamins you need to stay healthy.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: An Apple a Day [Pdf]
Distinguish between fruits and vegetables through a sorting game, learn to appreciate new foods through a tasting activity, create funny food friends with magazine cutouts of healthy foods and dramatize preparing a health meal or snack.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Family doctor.org: Diabetes and Nutrition
In question / answer format, this article is a simple guide to the diabetic diet. Here, read an "exchange list" that will help a person "plan healthy meals and snacks." This is a good site to get an overview of information on the subject.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Most Nutritious Election
In this lesson students will write a persuasive speech for the Fruit or Vegetable of the Year Award. Nutrition information should be incorporated into this cross-curricular lesson.
WebMD
Web Md: Apples Again Top 'Dirty Dozen' List for Pesticides
Which foods are best when grown organic, and which ones are just as healthy for you when conventionally produced? This article lists types of fruits and vegetables from each category and explains why pesticide in food is an important...
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Eat Your Way to Five a Day!
This resource presents guidelines to follow to help you make healthy food choices and get the nutrients from fruits and vegetables that your body needs.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Staying Healthy
Find yummy recipes for food to make yourself! There are also articles about the reasons for vitamins and minerals, how to eat when you're playing sports, and a number of other important topics.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Food Theme
This site from EnchantedLearning.com provides food-related activities including nursery rhymes, printables, crafts, and quizzes. Includes pages on the food pyramid, food terms in other languages, famous paintings, and a feature on the...
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Bok Choy
A common cabbage-like green found in several Chinese dishes is bok choy. Find nutritional values and ways to select and prepare this leafy vegetable.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Real Scientists: Food Scientist
Explore why plants can be healthy food sources. Learn how a food scientist assesses the nutritional value of Green Giant vegetables.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Kale
A newer superfood consumed in baby and full maturation growth is chock-full of nutritional values, found in many varieties, and prepared in a number of ways featured in this entry.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Sweet Potato
A sweet potato, often on the table around the winter holidays, is loaded with nutritional value. Find out how to select a good tuber as well as ideas of how to prepare the sweet starch.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Celery Root
Identify a celery root, know its nutritional values, and try making celery root dip all featured in this entry.
Precision Nutrition
Encyclopedia of Food: Red Beets
Red beet cake? Yes! Find a recipe for it and the nutritional information as well as tips for selecting good beets in this entry.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Smarter Food Processing Techniques
Test your knowledge about the foods you eat by taking a short quiz. Match products to their ingredients, answer questions about nutritional values and compute the amount of fruits and vegetables consumed per year.