Using Mobile Fruit Vendors to Increase Access to Fresh Fruit and Vegetables for Schoolchildren
This study explored the extent to which schoolchildren purchased precut and bagged fruits and vegetables from a mobile fruit vendor (frutero). During 14 days in fall 2008, a frutero sold fruits and vegetables at the entrance of an elementary school; 59% of the frutero’s 233 consumers of 248 items we...
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pubmed-34577662012-11-13 Using Mobile Fruit Vendors to Increase Access to Fresh Fruit and Vegetables for Schoolchildren Tester, June M. Yen, Irene H. Laraia, Barbara Brief This study explored the extent to which schoolchildren purchased precut and bagged fruits and vegetables from a mobile fruit vendor (frutero). During 14 days in fall 2008, a frutero sold fruits and vegetables at the entrance of an elementary school; 59% of the frutero’s 233 consumers of 248 items were elementary-school students. With each successive day, an average of 1 additional bag of fruits and vegetables was sold by the frutero and 1.5 fewer nonnutritious foods by a competing vendor. Policies encouraging the sale of nutritious foods from mobile food vendors may increase access for schoolchildren. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3457766/ /pubmed/22632739 http://dx.doi.org/10.5888/pcd9.110222 Text en |
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Using Mobile Fruit Vendors to Increase Access to Fresh Fruit and Vegetables for Schoolchildren |
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This study explored the extent to which schoolchildren purchased precut and bagged fruits and vegetables from a mobile fruit vendor (frutero). During 14 days in fall 2008, a frutero sold fruits and vegetables at the entrance of an elementary school; 59% of the frutero’s 233 consumers of 248 items were elementary-school students. With each successive day, an average of 1 additional bag of fruits and vegetables was sold by the frutero and 1.5 fewer nonnutritious foods by a competing vendor. Policies encouraging the sale of nutritious foods from mobile food vendors may increase access for schoolchildren. |
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