Photographs in Lunch Tray Compartments and Vegetable Consumption Among Children in Elementary School Cafeterias - — JAMA

Photographs in Lunch Tray Compartments and Vegetable Consumption Among Children in Elementary School Cafeterias - — JAMA

D'oh! Why didn't I think of this? A group of researchers placed photos of vegetables on cafeteria trays in schools and vegetable consumption increased.

We attempted to increase vegetable consumption by placing photographs of vegetables in school lunch tray compartments. We expected these photographs to indicate to the children that others typically select and place vegetables in those compartments and that they should do so too.

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