Fruit and Vegetable
Nutrition Chart

Check out our color fruit and vegetable nutrition chart. Not only is color more exciting, colors in vegetables and fruits are what gives us multivitamins, minerals and fiber our body needs so much. You should get at least 5 or more servings every day, so include many different colors of fruits and vegetables in your meals.

Serve a balance of different colored foods to your family. Seeing one color on their plates isn't as appealing as a variety of different colors and tastes. It is proven that a colorful meal will be more interesting and be eaten more then a meal all the same color. Imagine a plate with a cooked chicken breast, cooked rice and sliced bananas. They may be healthy but by adding a green salad and red strawberries or watermelon you are adding more nutrition and more color to your plate.

Nutrition Food Chart

You can also print off a copy of this nutrition food chart to hang in your kitchen or use as a nutrition kids cooking lesson. You will need Adobe Reader to open and read the nutrition and color chart document.

Color	Some fruits and vegetables	Some of the benefits
Blue and Purple	blackberries, blueberries plums, figs,  grapes, raisins, purple cabbage, eggplant	These support digestion, improve calcium, reduce strokes and cancers. They are also high in vitamin C and fiber.
Green	avocados, kiwi green apples, peas green grapes artichokes, lettuce asparagus, celery broccoli, spinach green beans green cabbage,  cucumbers, limes, okra	These are high in iron, fiber, calcium and magnesium, vitamins C, E, K and many of the B vitamins. Green foods  help eye sight, digestion and boost your immune system.
Yellow and Orange	carrots, oranges, apricots, cantaloupes, lemons, mangoes, nectarines, peaches, yellow peppers, papayas, sweet potatoes, pineapple, pumpkin, corn	These are high in vitamin C and beta-carotenes. They help keep your heart healthy, good for eye sight, and build healthy bones.
White	bananas, cauliflower, garlic, ginger, mushrooms, onions, potatoes, turnips, parsnips	These help boost immune system, reduce cancers, and balance hormones.
Red	red apples, tomatoes, cherries, cranberries, beets, red peppers, radishes, watermelon, raspberries, rhubarb	Red foods help fight cancers, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol and keep your heart healthy.

You can learn more fruit and vegetable food facts, to go along with this fruit and vegetable nutrition chart and teach kids about healthy eating, on our kids-cooking-activities.com site under food facts.

Help in getting kids to eat 5 a day

There are several fun products in the market today to help get kids interested in eating more fruits and vegetables. These products are great in that they teach kids about what they are eating and how much fruits and vegetables, or how little, they are eating.  Use these ideas along with the fruit and vegetable nutrition chart to help kids see what foods they should be eating.

Super Healthy Habits Plate

My friend Amy, at Super Healthy Kids Blog has created a healthy habits plate to teach kids and parents to watch and see what balanced portions are. This plate also helps kids to visually see that they need to add fruits and vegetables to their meals.

Today I ate a Rainbow

This Today I ate a Rainbow chart helps kids mark and see how many fruits and vegetables they've eaten each day. The great idea is for them to eat 5 colors a day.