What Color is Your Food?

What Color is Your Food? Eat 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day!

Eat a rainbow everyday

Eat 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day! Red apples Beets Red cabbage Cherries Cranberries Pink grapefruit Red grapes Red peppers Pomegranates Red potatoes Radishes Raspberries Rhubarb Strawberries Tomatoes Watermelon

Apricots Butternut squash Cantaloupe Carrots Grapefruit Nectarines Oranges Peaches Pears Yellow peppers Persimmons Pumpkin Rutabagas Yellow summer or winter squash Sweet corn Sweet potatoes

Green apples Asparagus Green beans Broccoli Brussels sprouts Green cabbage Cucumbers Green grapes Honeydew melon Kiwi Lettuce Limes Green onions Peas Green pepper Spinach Zucchini

Blackberries Blueberries Eggplant Figs Juneberries Plums Prunes Purple grapes Raisins

Eat 5 to 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day! Bananas Cauliflower Garlic Ginger Jicama Mushrooms Onions Parsnips Potatoes Turnips

Preserve Some Nutrients

Tips to Increase Fruits and Vegetables in Your Diet Keep cleaned fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator—ready to eat. Have fruit for dessert Keep a bowl of fruit on the table Order veggie toppings on your pizza Pack fresh or dried fruits for quick snacks

Keep cleaned fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator—ready to eat.

Have fruit for dessert

Keep a bowl of fruit on the table

Order veggie toppings on your pizza

Pack fresh or dried fruits for quick snacks

Preserve Some Nutrients Limit peeling to preserve fiber content Steam, broil or microwave or cook in a small amount of water Grill directly or in foil packets Avoid boiling Serve foods promptly

Limit peeling to preserve fiber content

Steam, broil or microwave or cook in a small amount of water

Grill directly or in foil packets

Avoid boiling

Serve foods promptly

Resources www.aboutproduce.com www.5aday.gov www.5aday.com www.extension.iastate.edu

www.aboutproduce.com

www.5aday.gov

www.5aday.com

www.extension.iastate.edu

What is a Food and Fitness Initiative? People working together to create vibrant communities where healthy eating and physical activity are convenient, affordable and safe for all children and families.

People working together to create vibrant communities where healthy eating and physical activity are convenient, affordable and safe for all children and families.

Where are Food & Fitness Initiatives?

NE Iowa’s Food and Fitness Initiative

Why Food and Fitness is Important The places we live, learn, work and play affect our health.

Why Food and Fitness is Important All children deserve to grow up in places that support being healthy.

All children deserve to grow up in places that support being healthy.

Promoting Changes . . .

Who’s Involved? Entire Community

Develop a Common Language Active Living by Design Safe Routes to School Program School Wellness Policies What is a Local Food System? Creating a Vision for NE IA Linking Health , Food, Active Living Policy and System Change Setting Vision, Strategies & Tactics

Active Living by Design

Safe Routes to School Program

School Wellness Policies

What is a Local Food System?

Creating a Vision for NE IA

Linking Health , Food, Active Living

Policy and System Change

Setting Vision, Strategies & Tactics

Our Vision . . . Northeast Iowa is a unique place where all residents and guests experience, celebrate and promote healthy locally grown food with abundant opportunities for physical activity and play EVERY DAY. Healthier people make stronger families and vibrant communities.

Northeast Iowa is a unique place where all residents and guests experience, celebrate and promote healthy locally grown food with abundant opportunities for physical activity and play EVERY DAY.

Healthier people make stronger families and vibrant communities.

www.iowafoodandfitness.org Working Together