Using Mobile Fruit Vendors to Increase Access to Fresh Fruit and Vegetables for Schoolchildren

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Tester, June M. ; Yen, Irene H. ; Laraia, Barbara
• Description:
  This study explored the extent to which schoolchildren purchased precut and bagged fruits and vegetables from a mobile fruit vendor (frutero). During 14 days in fall 2008, a frutero sold fruits and vegetables at the entrance of an elementary school; 59% of the frutero's 233 consumers of 248 items were elementary-school students. With each successive day, an average of 1 additional bag of fruits and vegetables was sold by the frutero and 1.5 fewer nonnutritious foods by a competing vendor. Policies encouraging the sale of nutritious foods from mobile food vendors may increase access for schoolchildren.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Brief Child Child, Preschool Commerce Emigrants And Immigrants Female Food Habits Food Packaging Food Services Fruit Health Behavior Health Promotion Humans Linear Models Male Pilot Projects Residence Characteristics School Health Services Students Time Factors Vegetables

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• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 9.
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  9
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e4f808ccdf3000ea123d2db675fa39bf6dcf01a756cb8371da8c3d1dcc14ead083ff94d29f6e7164d4ddeb7043c52b53c27857bfe93f79053a615dc44c69e21e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/19708/cdc_19708_DS1.pdf
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