Showing posts with label vegetables. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vegetables. Show all posts

Friday, September 10, 2010

Getting enough produce?

I saw this article today ranking Oklahoma as last on the national list of states consuming enough fruit on a daily basis: LINK.

What I found sad about the article is the fact that nationally, OJ is considered a favorite fruit and potatoes a favorite vegetable (mainly fried versions I imagine). What extreme non-fibrous and sweet/salty/fatty representatives of the fruit and veg categories!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

CARROTS! IN YER FACE!

I'm conflicted as to how to feel about this marketing campaign to sell vegetables:


Clicky


This bit of the linked article above I found disturbing:

"Ad psychologist Carol Moog says kids may be disappointed to find all the flashy ads are really just for carrots. She says they need to make carrots more fun — like, perhaps, putting an orange (but natural) dusting on carrots that mimics Cheetos."

The only dust I want to see on carrots is dirt. From the ground in which it was grown.