Location of School Lunch Salad Bars and Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Middle Schools: A Cross-Sectional Plate Waste Study

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 407-416

  Adams, Marc A ^a   Bruening, Meg ^a   Ohri Vachaspati, Punam ^a   Hurley, Jane C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Fruit and vegetable intake; School lunch; Students; Waste

Indexed keywords

CHILD; ETHNICITY; EXPOSURE; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE SCHOOL; MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENT; NESTING; PREVALENCE; RACE; RANDOM SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VEGETABLE; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CATERING SERVICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; MALE; MEAL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; SCHOOL; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SERVICES; FRUIT; HUMANS; LUNCH; MALE; SCHOOLS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84959094087     PISSN: 22122672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2015.10.011     Document Type: Article

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