...Effat Hatefnia; Esmat Hossini; Mitra Rahimzadeh Purpose Using the PRECEDE model, the purpose of this paper is to determine the predictors of mothers’ performance in daily consumption of fruit and vegetables (FV) in rural preschoolers. Design/methodology/approach This study was carried out...

...Silke Mittmann; Anja Austel; Thomas Ellrott Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of the Cancer Society of Lower Saxony’s school-based nutrition education programme “5-a-day for kids”, designed to increase children’s fruit and vegetable consumption. Intervention...

...Charlotte Taylor; Penney Upton; Dominic Upton Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the evidence base of the Food Dudes healthy eating programme, specifically the short- and long-term effectiveness of the intervention for consumption of fruit and vegetables both at school and at home...

...Helen Burchett This paper aimed to identify the key elements that should be included in a fruit and vegetable‐promoting programme in British primary schools. Such a programme could be used in healthy schools schemes or “five‐a‐day” programmes. Five US school intervention studies were analysed...

...Joanna Moe; Joan Roberts; Laurence Moore This paper reports on the key lessons learned during the course of a randomised controlled trial of fruit tuck shops, in which 23 primary schools in the UK, in South Wales and the South‐West of England set up and operated a fruit tuck shop for one academic...