In a study of 3,148 children and adolescents aged 2 - 18 years in the 48 conterminous United States, the following results were found on the ways in which fruits and vegetables are consumed by children . . .
* Nearly one-quarter of all vegetables eaten by children and adolescents were french fries! Their intake of all fruits and dark green or yellow veggies was very low compared with recommendations. Only one in five children consumed five or more servings of fruits and veggies per day
Researchers studied the diets of 51 children aged 3-6 at 12 child care centers and found that . . .
* 84% of the children consumed fewer vegetables than recommended
* Children often did not eat enough food at the child care center to obtain even 50% of the RDA for energy, niacin, iron and zinc.
* 8 of the 51 children had daily dietary intakes that were less than 67% percent of RDA for iron, zinc,and energy
A study was conducted using 116 two year old children and 107 five year old children who were scheduled for a non-acute doctor's visit, between 1992 and 1993. The study found that . . .
* Preschool aged children consumed, on average, about 80 percent of the recommended fruit serving a day, but only 25 percent of the recommended vegetable servings a day. Low intakes of fruits and vegetables were associated with inadequate intakes of vitamin A, C and dietary fiber, in addition to high intakes of total fat and saturated fat
Researchers studied 3307 children in the United States ranging in ages from 2-19 to determine the number of children meeting national recommendations for food group intake and found that . . .
* Only 1% met all the recommendations!
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