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us children meet recommendations daily fruit vegetable intake aim evaluate hypothesis postintervention children exposed harvest healthy kids pilot study greater willingness try liking target foods vs children comparison group controlling baseline differences conducted quasiexperimental pilot study comparison lowintervention highintervention groups pre postintervention survey data collected intervention period october 2012 may 2013 analysis sample 226 children within higherlevel unit sample five participating head start centers portland 231 children dropped enrolled head start midyear absent refused participate assessments missing covariates comparison group received intervention components lowintervention group received foodservice modifications highintervention group received foodservice modifications nutrition education willingness try liking target foods tested analyzed binary variables mcnemars tests used assess differences pre postintervention scores intervention group fixed slope random intercept multilevel logistic models used assess associations intervention group postintervention scores controlling covariates adjusting baseline values accounting center level clustering difference pre postintervention willingness try liking target foods statistically significant variety foods example 442 children liked rutabaga preintervention compared 781 postintervention p0004 multilevel modeling indicated similar associations harvest healthy kids pilot study suggests positive association intervention willingness try liking target foods among study participants additional research needed assess impact program fruit vegetable intake