Home-packed lunches include more vegetables if children help, study finds

Medical X-Press – Sharita Forrest

Nearly half of the home-packed lunches that children brought to school each day rarely or never included vegetables, a University of Illinois researcher found in a new study of families in California. However, the number of vegetables in kids’ lunches increased if they participated in deciding what foods to pack, said Carolyn Sutter, a postdoctoral research associate with the U. of I.’s Family Resiliency Center and the lead author of the study. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-12-home-packed-lunches-vegetables-children.html