The United Fresh Foundation has introduced Let’s Move Salad Bars to California Schools, a campaign to donate salad bars to 350 California schools at the United Fresh 2013 convention in San Diego.
The campaign is spearheaded by four California produce industry leaders passionate about increasing children’s consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables with school salad bars, including Karen Caplan, president and CEO of Frieda's Inc, Margaret D'Arrigo-Martin, vice-president of community development at Taylor Farms, Lisa McNeece, vice-president of foodservice and industrial sales at Grimmway Enterprises, and Dick Spezzano, president of Spezzano Consulting.
'This is truly a win-win for all involved,' noted Spezzano. 'Childhood obesity has become a serious problem in the United States and by providing salad bars to schools, students will develop healthy eating habits and influence their parents to purchase more fresh produce at the grocery store.'
Let’s Move Salad Bars to California Schools is a programme of the United Fresh Foundation, a founding partner of Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools, a national initiative that has donated more than 1,600 salad bars nationwide, increasing children’s access and consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables in school lunch every day. The programme supports First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative to end childhood obesity in a generation.
