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USDA School Snack Guide - Smart Snack List for Parents, Teachers and School Foodservice Directors
The face of school snacks is changing. With the new USDA regulations, healthful foods are replacing cookies and candy as the snacks available to kids. But how will this impact your school event? Let’s take a look...
Fun Fruit Trivia: Figs
Today, figs finally get their moment in the spotlight. Check out these fun fig facts!
Fun Fruit Trivia: Persimmons
Our fruit trivia series continues with another fall favorite... persimmons!
Fun Fruit Trivia: Apples
You ask, we deliver! Lots of people have been writing to me lately asking for more trivia about healthful foods...
Fall Recipe Spotlight
Fall is in the air, so I'm sharing a few of my very favorite fall recipes...
Building Blocks of Health: A Review
Building Blocks of Health: Fruit
One of my favorite lines from the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans is...
Building Blocks of Health: Vegetables
We all know that vegetables play a key role in good health, but despite this knowledge, most Americans aren't getting enough...
New Series: The Building Blocks of Health
We have a brand-new poster in the Nutrition Education Store, and we thought we'd celebrate its introduction with a new series... The Building Blocks of Health!
Back to School Tip #1: Snackvantage
August is Kids Eat Right Month and also when most kids head back to school. Help the kids in your life make healthful choices as they start back to school by seizing a snackvantage...
Our Most Popular Series
Get It Prepped was such a huge hit that I want to take a moment to look back on a few other series in Food and Health history. Here are a few top series that are loaded with fresh resources for your clients...
Eating in Color: Purple, Part Two
Today marks the last installment of our series: Eating in Color....
Eating in Color: Purple
It's the last week of Eating in Color and we're focusing on purple fruits and vegetables!
Eating in Color: Blue, Part Two
As I mentioned in Eating in Color: Blue, truly blue fruits and vegetables are pretty darn rare. Occasionally you can get your hands on a blue potato or something, but for the sake of accessibility, we're going to stay a little more mainstream and put a deep purple vegetable in the spotlight instead: eggplant.
Eating in Color: Green, Part Two
Here is one of our best installments of the Eating in Color series -- it's all about leafy greens like kale! Get a closer look at kale's health impact, how to select and store it, how to prepare it, and much more!
Eating in Color: Green
It's time for more eating in color! This time we've got a fun favorite fruit to spotlight: the kiwi!
Eating in Color: Blue
I'll give you one guess about the fruit that we're featuring for Eating in Color: Blue...
Eating in Color: Yellow, Part Two
Eating in Color is back, and this time we've got a fantastic yellow vegetable in mind: corn!
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