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See the video and photos from
First Lady Michelle Obama's visit to Miami's Riverside Elementary School.
How a D.C. school puts fresh food on the lunchroom tablesWashington Post, February 28, 2010
Our kids ravage that salad bar every day. We literally run out of most things we put out, especially the uncooked cauliflower, broccoli and leaf spinach. And these are pre-K through sixth-graders!
United Donates Salad Bars to Washington Charter SchoolsThrough the United Fresh Foundation's A Salad Bar in Every School campaign, two additional schools in the District of Columbia - Friendship Public Charter
School and the Imagine Southeast Public Charter School - have recently received new salad bars.
United to Donate Salad Bars to New Orleans SchoolsSchools throughout New Orleans will be the beneficiaries this
fall as the United Fresh Produce Association has announced that it will donate
multiple salad bars to schools in the Crescent City as part of its A Salad Bar in Every
School campaign.
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United Fresh Produce Association Foundation is proud to be a Founding Partner of the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools Initiative. The goal of Let's Move Salad Bars to School is to increase children's consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables through school salad bars. This landmark initiative, which pledges to donate 6,000 salad bars to schools nationwide over the next three years, is playing a major role in improving the healthfulness of school meals, creating healthier school environments and helping to incentivize schools to become Healthier US Challenge schools.
To date Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools has donated 1400 salad bars to schools nationwide.
Produce leaders across the industry are generously supporting Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools. |
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Schools interested in applying for salad bars should visit the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools website, www.saladbars2schools.org. For information about how your school can apply, click here.
Produce companies interested in supporting the United Fresh Foundation's campaign to support Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools should contact Andrew Marshall, United Fresh policy and grassroots coordinator, at amarshall@unitedfresh.org or (202) 303-3400.
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Background
The United Fresh Produce Association Foundations's Center for Nutrition & Heath has been a pioneer in demonstrating the effectiveness of salad bars in schools as a strategy for increasing children's fruit and vegetable consumption. In 2009, United Fresh brought university researchers and school officials together for a series of Congressional and Administration briefings on the effectiveness of salad bars in schools. Subsequently, the United Fresh Foundation's Center for Nutrition & Health launched its own Salad Bar in Every School campaign in February 2010 to donate salad bars to schools around the country to create models of excellence and demonstrate how salad bars can be important tools in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption. Today, working with the Founding Partners of the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative, United Fresh and the produce industry are continuing to raise funds to support donation of salad bars to schools, building on our past success to improve nutrition and end childhood obesity. |
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| Founded in 1904, the United Fresh Produce Association serves companies at the forefront of the global fresh and fresh-cut produce industry, including growers, shippers, fresh-cut processors, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, foodservice operators, industry suppliers and allied associations. From its headquarters in Washington, D.C. and Western Regional office in Salinas, Calif., United Fresh and its members work year-round to make a difference for the produce industry by driving policies that increase consumption of fresh produce, shaping critical legislative and regulatory action, providing scientific and technical leadership in food safety, quality assurance, nutrition and health, and developing educational programs and business opportunities to assist member companies in growing successful businesses. |
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