100 Texas Schools to receive salad bars

More than 60,000 children throughout Texas will benefit from new salad bars donated by the United Fresh Foundation through the “Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools” initiative. The 100 salad bars will increase students’ consumption of a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables every day.

With the help of 60 donor companies, the initiative helps support First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative to end childhood obesity. United Fresh is a founding partner of the “Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools” initiative, which has a goal of donating salad bars to 6,000 schools nationwide by 2013.

“Research and school experience shows that students eat more fresh produce when they have a salad bar that provides a variety of colorful choices of fruits and vegetables every school day,” says Dr. Lorelei DiSogra, United Fresh vice president of nutrition and health. “School salad bars are one of the most effective ways for schools to meet the new national school lunch standards which call for doubling the amount of fruits and vegetables served everyday at lunch. Schools that have salad bars also make it easy for students to ‘Make Half Their Plate Fruits and Vegetables’ as recommended by the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.”

To learn more, visit www.saladbars2schools.org.