Daily Recommended Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables

Daily Recommended Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables

We are encouraged to consume 4-6 portions of fruit and vegetables each

day. Investigate how this might be achieved.

At each stage of the life cycle we are encouraged to consume 4-6

portions of fruit and vegetables a day. As it would be too hard to

investigate all the stages of the life cycle. I am only going to

choose one.

The group that I have chosen to base my investigation on is teenagers.

I chose this particular group as I, myself am a teenager and therefore

I have a fairly good idea on what we, as teenagers like and dislike to

eat. Another reason is that I am constantly surrounded by teenagers in

school and that means that I will be able to retrieve the information

and view points that I need to complete my investigation.

THE ISSUES:

· How can teenagers be encouraged to eat 4-6 portions of fruit and

vegetables?

· What is a teenagers daily eating habits?

· Do they eat more fruit than veg or vice versa?

· Do teenagers like fruit and vegetables? why?

· How much fruit and veg do they consume daily?

· Are fruit and veg readily available?

· Do they have a large variety of fruit and veg?

· Are teenagers encouraged to eat fruit and vegetables at home,

school?

· Who influences their eating habits?

· Does colour/ texture/ and packaging matter when they buy food?

· What is a portion?

· Does it matter if fruit/ veg is fresh/ frozen/ liquid?

· How can we make fruit and veg more appealing?

· What foods are popular?

· Why do we need to consume 4-6 portions of fruit and veg each day?

The key issues

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For this investigation I am only going to look closely at three of the

issues that I have highlighted in my introduction. The reason for

doing this is that it would be very difficult and it would take a lot