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08 January 2004 1223 GMT
Graphic: How Grab5! taught me about healthy eating
Picture: Helen Dalton-Hare with pupils at Fairhaven VA Primary School
Helen Dalton-Hare with children at Fairhaven VA Primary School

Grab5! is a campaign to help kids eat more fresh fruit and vegetables.

Phoebe, a pupil at Fairhaven VA Primary School writes about the day when the Grab5! team came to her school.


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One in five children eat no fruit in a week.
Μύ Eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day means you are less likely to have heart disease and cancer.
Μύ About 10% of an apple is made up of carbohydrate. 4% of an apple is made up of vitamins and minerals. The rest of the apple, more than 80%, is made up of water.
Μύ Eating more fruit and vegetables also lowers your blood pressure.
Μύ Steaming vegetables instead of boiling them helps them keep their nutritious content.
Μύ Grab5! is part of the 5-A-Day Norfolk initiative funded by the New Opportunities Fund.
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Children and parents gathered at Fairhaven Primary School, near Norwich, for a Grab 5! event. Three women came to the school dressed as two peas in a pod and a carrot: they came to teach children about healthy eating.

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"If you eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, you are 20% less likely to get cancer and heart disease," they explained.

In a wheelbarrow they had brought examples of frozen, tinned and fresh fruit and vegetables. They explained to the kids that all these were healthy for you so long as the fruit in the tins wasn't in syrup.

The School Council and the school Grab 5! representative arranged to buy a blender so they could give out free smoothies during the afternoon.

The school cook also made some fruity snacks for the children, teachers and parents to taste. Whether it was pomegranates, peach pastries or fruit kebabs, all the kids tried something new and most of them liked it.

Picture: Kids at the school enjoying their healthy snacks
Kids at the school enjoying their healthy snacks

The Grab5! team also provided stickers, wristbands, postcards and bookmarks to persuade children to eat more fruit and veg.

"I ate six apples!" said an excited, young reception child.

"Mrs Shepherd is now selling the fruit in the tuck shop!"

All the school enjoyed the Grab 5! event and will want to eat more fruit and vegetables in the future.

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