Hockessin, Del. – Select Fruits & Veggies—More Matters® recipes are now featured on the website AllRecipes.com. Eight recipes in all, two of them kid-friendly, are available on both the Fruits & Veggies—More Matters website, www.FruitsandVeggiesMoreMatters.org and at www.AllRecipes.com.
These recipes were made available as part of an agreement between Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH), the nonprofit entity in partnership with CDC behind the Fruits & Veggies—More Matters national public health initiative, and AllRecipes.com. The recipes are: Tuna Pasta Salad with Avocado, Pork Chops with Mandarin Orange Salsa, Sesame Chicken, Creamy Mexican Salsa Dip, Pineapple Salsa, Apple Chicken Stir Fry, Crazy Curly Broccoli Bake, and Frosty Orangeliciousness Smoothie.
By providing Fruits & Veggies—More Matters recipes to a wider audience, PBH hopes to make it easier for everyone to meet the half-the-plate recommendation in the USDA’s 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The half-the-plate concept simplifies the idea of serving size. Half your plate is easy to visualize, so just make colorful fruits and vegetables about half of what you eat, every time you eat, to make sure that you are eating enough of these healthy foods.
“Filling half your plate with colorful fruits and vegetables is a delicious way to ensure that you’re giving your body the nutrition it needs for better health,” said Elizabeth Pivonka, Ph.D., R.D., president and CEO of PBH. “On the Fruits & Veggies—More Matters website we offer mouth-watering recipes along with nutrition information and advice that makes it easy for folks to add more fruits and vegetables to meals and snacks. We hope that by branching out and posting some of our recipes on AllRecipes.com more people will become familiar with Fruits & Veggies—More Matters and come check out what we have to offer, which is quite a lot.”
There are several tools to help you add more fruits and vegetables to your diet on the Fruits & Veggies—More Matters website, www.FruitAndVeggiesMoreMatters.org. You’ll find several tips for eating healthy on a budget, advice for getting kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, and creative recipes that make them taste irresistibly delicious. There is also a Weekly Healthy Menu Idea that spells out a full day’s eating plan including, breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks that total less than 2,000 calories and a Recipe of the Week that’s a fun way to try a new (healthy!) dish each week. Both of these are accessible on the website, or you can sign up to receive them via email each Tuesday.
The website features a recipe database with over 1,000 recipes, many of which can be made in 30 minutes or less, and a Video Center loaded with informational and entertaining short clips that offer fruit and veggie selection and storage advice and preparation and usage techniques.
For more information about Fruits & Veggies—More Matters or fruit and vegetable nutrition visit www.FruitsandVeggiesMoreMatters.org.
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About Produce for Better Health Foundation
Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) fruit and vegetable education foundation. Since 1991, PBH works to motivate people to eat more fruits and vegetables to improve public health. PBH achieves success through industry and government collaboration, first with the 5 A Day program and now with the Fruits & Veggies—More Matters public health initiative. Fruits & Veggies—More Matters is the nation’s largest public-private, fruit and vegetable nutrition education initiative with Fruit and Vegetable Nutrition Coordinators in each state, territory and the military. To learn more, visit www.PBHFoundation.org and www.FruitsandVeggiesMoreMatters.org.
PBH is also a member and co-chair with Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) of the National Fruit & Vegetable Alliance (NFVA), consisting of government agencies, non-profit organizations, and industry working to collaboratively and synergistically achieve increased nationwide access and demand for all forms of fruits and vegetables for improved public health. To learn more, visit www.NFVA.org.
Source: Produce for Better Health Foundation
