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 Get Your Portions

Increasing your child's intake of fresh, frozen and canned fruit and vegetables to five portions a day can help them avoid heart disease and some cancers, and has loads of other health benefits. For the best range of vitamins and other nutrients, serve a wide variety of types and colours. Here's a guide to what a portion of fruit or vegetables amounts to.



0

a third

a half
  • potatoes — they don't count towards daily portions, in any form
  • cereal bowl of shredded carrots
  • aubergine
  • avocado
  • grapefruit
  • large courgette
   

1

1
baked beans
  • medium apple, pear or banana
  • handful of grapes, blackberries
  • cereal bowl of mixed salad
  • handful of mixed vegetable sticks (peppers, carrots, spring onions)
  • medium glass of fruit juice (counts only once a day, even if you drink more)
  • tablespoon of raisins or mixed dried fruit
  • slice of melon
  • large parsnip
  • medium onion
  • handful sugarsnap peas
  • nectarine
  • medium tomato
  • large slice fresh pineapple
  • portion of canned or fresh soup (tomato soup gives more than one portion, dried soups less than one portion)
   
2 3
4
  • rings of dried apple
  • heaped tablespoons French beans
  • tablespoons cooked curly kale
 
5
  • spears fresh asparagus
  • satsumas or clementines
  • halves of canned peaches
  • medium plums
  • broccoli florets
  • fresh figs
  • kiwis
  • slices of mango
  • rings canned pineapple
  • handfuls fresh raspberries
  • heaped tablespoons cooked spinach
  • heaped tablespoons cooked rhubarb
  • whole dried apricots
  • heaped tablespoons of peas or sweetcorn, fresh, frozen or canned
  • heaped tablespoons of cooked kidney beans or chickpeas (pulses count only once a day, even if you eat more)
  • heaped tablespoons canned fruit salad
  • heaped tablespoons shredded cabbage
  • celery sticks
  • tablespoons baked beans
   
sacks of pulses 6 7
  • baby sweetcorn
  • lychees, fresh or canned
  • spears canned asparagus
  • strawberries
  • cherry tomatoes
  
8 12
  • Brussels sprouts
  • spring onions
  • canned pineapple chunks
   
14 16 150
  • fresh cherries
  • button mushrooms
  • fingers of okra
  • ml of fruit smoothie
 

Do Something!

Reality check
» They're eating — what?
» Keep a grub log
» What is the healthy stuff?
» Check out the menu

Make a difference
» Start a campaign
» Who runs the show?
» Activate and motivate?
» Don't complain, organise

Prepare for change
» Tempt their taste buds
» Fab food at home
›› Get your portions
» Great lunchboxes


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Fab Food At Home

Need more help adding extra fruit and veg to your children's diet? Tempt their taste buds with our imaginative ideas.

 
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