A School Gardening and Healthy Snack Program Increased Aboriginal First Nations Children's Preferences Toward Vegetables and Fruit.

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    • Subject Terms:
      NATIVE American children; NUTRITION education; FIRST Nations of Canada; CHILDREN'S health; CHILD nutrition; CLINICAL trials; FOOD preferences; FRUIT; HORTICULTURE; LONGITUDINAL method; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SCHOOLS; SELF-evaluation; SNACK foods; STATISTICS; VEGETABLES; DATA analysis; SOCIAL learning theory; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHILDREN
    • Subject Terms:
      CANADA; ALBERTA
    • Abstract:
      Objective: The researchers evaluated the impact of a 7-month gardening and 4-month vegetable and fruit snack program on Aboriginal First Nations children's home consumption and preferences toward vegetables and fruit. Methods: The intervention was based on the Social Cognitive Theory. Children in grades 1–6 planted and tended classroom container gardens and prepared and ate what grew. At baseline and 7 months later, children tasted and rated 17 vegetables and fruit using a Likert scale and indicated whether they ate each food at home. Results: Data were collected from 76 of 116 children (65.5%). Preference scores for vegetables, fruit, and vegetables and fruit combined increased over the 7 months (P < .017). Self-reported home consumption did not change. Conclusions and Implications: School interventions have the potential to increase children's preferences for vegetables and fruit. Family participation is likely required, along with increased community availability of produce, to promote home consumption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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