Food Facts Sheets

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These food facts sheets are informative sheets that include facts for many fruits and vegetables, grain, dairy and meat products. These fact sheets are to help learn more about good nutrition and follow the MyPyramid.gov food chart for healthy eating for kids.

Visit one of our nutrition lessons here.

Included in each page is how the food grows, when it is available, what to look for when buying, how to cook, and a recipe. Many of these pages have cooking videos, also.

Teaching Food Facts

While cooking with your kids teach them about the foods you are using. Teaching and helping your child understand where and how fruits, vegetables and other products we eat are grown, can help peak their interest in eating healthy. It doesn't have to be a long informative lesson, just telling them such things as potatoes are grown underground, walnuts grow on trees, or carrots are good for your eyes, can be interesting for them to learn.

Try using these fact sheets for lessons within themselves. Choose a fruit or vegetable you'd like to talk about. Then read the food fact sheet, try cooking with it and do an activity (plant a seed, visit a market or make a craft out of it).

Food Facts Sheets

Fruits Apple Apricot Avocado Banana Berry Cherry Coconut Cranberry Dates Figs Grapefruit Grapes Kiwi Lemon and Limes Mango Melon Orange Papaya Peach Pear Pineapple Plums Tomato	Vegetables Artichoke Asparagus Beets Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Carrot Cauliflower Celery Corn Cucumber Eggplant Garlic Green Beans Lettuce/Salad Greens Mushrooms Okra Onion Parsnip Peas, green Peppers Potato Radish Rhubarb Spinach Summer Squash and Zucchini Sweet Potato Turnip Winter Squash, including Pumpkins
Meat and Beans Beans Eggs Nuts Seeds Meat	Dairy Dairy products, including milk, cheese and yogurt
Grains Grains, including pasta, bread, and flour which is made from grains.	Check out our, What's in Season Page, that gives a brief overview of what vegetables and fruit are in season each month throughout the year.

Check out http://www.juicing-for-health.com for nutrition information and nutrition facts about a variety of fruits and vegetables.

~We have established these information sheets to the best of our knowledge and research. If you see something incorrect or want to submit information for us to use on these fact sheets please contact us.