Fruit and vegetable playing cards: Utility of the game for nutrition education

Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 74-80

  Torkar, Gregor ^a   Pintarič, Miša ^a   Koch, Verena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Children (age groups); Fruits; Health education; Indoor games; Nutrition; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049117999     PISSN: 00346659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00346651011015944     Document Type: Article

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