Increasing Children's Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Using Nutrition Education and Active Choice Principles

Effects of a nutrition education intervention on fruit and vegetable consumption-related dietary behavioural factors among elementary school children

“…In this study, nutrition knowledge scores related to general knowledge about fruit and vegetable, serving size of fruit and vegetable and benefit of fruit and vegetable consumption increased significantly among participants after the intervention. Other school-based research studies have found similar results in increasing nutrition knowledge among children post-intervention (Cafiero et al, 2017;Chan et al, 2020;Davis et al, 2016;Wall et al, 2012). Another nutrition education intervention which included eight weekly 20-minute nutrition lessons significantly improved nutrition knowledge among children in 3rd and 5th grade after the intervention (Epstein-Solfield et al, 2018), showing consistency with the current study results.…”

How can marketers encourage people to buy more fruit? Understanding and modelling consumer behaviour

“…However, this approach may provide limited results due to the diverse factors influencing the consumer decision, and the persuasive message may not accurately target the critical determinants of the final decision of consumers (Hardeman et al, 2002). Therefore, the intervention based on education was applied because this may influence the behaviour of consumers in the long-term rather than in the short-term (Anderson et al, 1998, Cafiero et al, 2017, Taghdisi et al, 2016.…”