Betty T Izumi, Rie Akamatsu, Carmen Byker Shanks, Kahori Fujisaki
An ethnographic study exploring factors that minimize lunch waste in Tokyo elementary schools
Public health nutrition
examine gardening experience enjoyment associated vegetable exposure preferences consumption vegetables among lowincome thirdgrade children crosssectional study design using baseline data texas grow eat go twentyeight title elementary schools located different counties texas thirdgrade students n 1326 42 hispanic main outcome measures gardening experience gardening enjoyment vegetable exposure preference consumption randomeffects regression models adjusted age sex ethnicity body mass index percentile child estimated means standard errors vegetable consumption exposure preference levels gardening experience enjoyment wald 2 tests evaluated significance differences means outcomes across levels gardening experience enjoyment children gardening experience greater vegetable exposure higher vegetable preference consumed vegetables compared children reported less gardening experience reported enjoyed gardening highest levels vegetable exposure preference consumption gardenbased interventions important positive effect childrens vegetable consumption increasing exposure fun gardening experiences