2017
DOI: 10.1111/chso.12214
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‘I Eat the Vegetables because I Have Grown them with My Own Hands’: Children's Perspectives on School Gardening and Vegetable Consumption

Abstract: Inadequate vegetable consumption is a global public health concern related to numerous health risks. A promising intervention to increase children's vegetable consumption is school gardening, although earlier studies have shown mixed results. This study explores how gardening might contribute to changed attitudes towards eating vegetables from a child's perspective. Findings are based on qualitative research with children in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. We reflect on how children enact agency regarding their ve… Show more

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“…It was also indicated in the focus group conversations with children that if they had the opportunity to grow fruit and vegetables, and taste them in the school gardens, that might have had an impact. This resonates with the findings from the qualitative study by Sarti and colleagues [45], who explored children’s perspectives on school gardening and vegetable consumption, where children stated that they ate vegetables because they had grown them with their own hands.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 79%
“…It was also indicated in the focus group conversations with children that if they had the opportunity to grow fruit and vegetables, and taste them in the school gardens, that might have had an impact. This resonates with the findings from the qualitative study by Sarti and colleagues [45], who explored children’s perspectives on school gardening and vegetable consumption, where children stated that they ate vegetables because they had grown them with their own hands.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 79%
“…The dietary life of elementary school students not only directly affects their health status at the time but is also linked to health status in adulthood and significantly affects lifetime health [2][3][4]. Incorrect eating behavior in childhood can lead to nutritional imbalances, growth disorders, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and various diseases in adulthood [5,6].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While gardening, the children in the current study's experimental group developed a positive attitude to consuming vegetables. Many studies have examined the question of the impact of the direct experience of gardening on this, with positive impacts reported by the following studies: Cavaliere, 1987;Cotugna et al, 2012;Hutchinson et al, 2015;Koch et al, 2006;Langellotto and Gupta, 2012;Lautenschlager and Smith, 2007;Leuven et al, 2018;Lineberger and Zajicek, 2000;Meinen et al, 2012;Morgan et al, 2010;Morris et al, 2001;Morris and Zidenberg-Cherr, 2002;Nolan et al, 2012;Nury et al, 2017;Parmer et al, 2009;Pothukuchi, 2004;Sarti et al, 2017;Waliczek and Zajicek, 2006;Wang, et al, 2010. Ohly et al (2016 noted the need to establish the impact of school gardening in terms of children's health and well-being by using more systematic and robust mixed methods of review.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%