Fruits and Vegetables

1. Fruits and Vegetables By Adam Hackbarth

2. Home Screen Helpful links provide: • Health Benefits of Fruit • Health Benefits of Vegetables • Ways to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Consumption • List of Fruits and Vegetables

3. Fruit and Vegetable Consumption grams/person/week YEAR

4. Proportion of adults eating different types of fruits and vegetables per day PERCENT FOOD ITEMS

5. Yogurt Dessert ½ Cup Apples ¾ Cup Oranges 3 Cup Yogurt 1/3 Cup Sugar

6. Fun Vegetable Facts • Most nutrients of the potato reside just below the skin • A horn worm can eat an entire tomato plant by itself in one day • California produces almost all of the broccoli sold in the United States • A baked potato (with skin) has 4 grams of dietary fiber • Carrots are 87% water • Pressing a slice of cucumber to the roof of your mouth for 30 seconds takes care of bad breath

7. Fun Fruit Facts • Apples keep you awake more than drinking a cup of coffee • There are more than 100 varieties of bananas • If left on a tree, an orange will not become overripe even though it changes back to a green color • More than 50% of grapes grown worldwide are fermented to produce wine • An average strawberry has 200 seeds • Kiwis have as much Vitamin C in them as oranges