Focus on Fruits
Eating The Colors of the
Rainbow!
Fruits come in all shapes and sizes.
Fruits can be juicy
Fruits can be sweet
Fruits can be mushy
Fruits can be crunchy
Fruits have lots of fiber
Fruits are a cheap
snack food
Fruits are very portable
Fruits help reduce the
chance of some diseases, like cancer, heart disease and
kidney stones
Some fruits
help your body
absorb more
calcium for
strong bones
Fruits have
antioxidants that
slow down your
body’s aging
Eating fruit can help keep you and
your family healthy
Fruits have less calories than junk foods
80 calories350 calories
Cheaper too!
Fruits cost less than junk foods
35 cents
68 cents
How do you buy the best fruit?
Check grocery ads for fruit on
sale.
Buy fruits when they are in season
Buy fruits frozen, canned or dried
Choose fruit packed in water or juice instead of syrup for fewer
calories and sugar
How can you eat more fruits?
Keep fruits out in easy reach
Put fruit in a pretty bowl on the counter where everyone can grab
some
Take fruit with you for
a quick snack
Pack in plastic to pick up and go
Add fruits to a salad
Make enough fruit salad to eat over several days
Eat fruits with your
children
Fruit, cheese and crackers are a yummy snack
Add dried fruits to snack mixes
or breakfast cereals
Keep canned or frozen fruits on hand for quick snacks
Let the kids help choose fruit for
meals.
Juice is good for you too,
BUT
Juice has as much calories and sugar as a soda, and no fiber like
whole fruits
Limit the juice your
family drinks
during the day.
Drinking juice is like drinking soda,
just as many calories, just as much sugar
Too much juice, and you’ll gain
weight!
Too much juice is bad for kids’ teeth
Sugar can rot teeth
Juice before bedtime is especially bad for young
teeth
Babies
Shouldn’t have juice until they
are six months old
Toddlers and
preschoolers should
only have about ½ cup
of juice a day
School age children and teens should have 1 cup
of juice a day
Adults
Adults should have only 2 cups of juice
per day
Limit juice and focus on eating whole
fruits.
Juice drinks and soda are not fruit juice
Juice drinks contain very
little fruit and are mostly
sugar.
This container has 43 grams of sugar and 5% real fruit juice!
Fruit drinks
add calories but no nutritio
n
FRUIT JUICE isn't on this label!
This is real fruit juice!
Brought to you by:Brought to you by:Virginia’s Family Nutrition Education Program, SNAP-Ed
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