Establishing healthy eating patterns as a child is essential to forming good dietary habits that help prevent negative health outcomes during childhood and later in life.
VegKIT takes a community-minded approach to fostering a love of vegetables, with activities that reach early childhood, primary school and even prenatal level.
This website contains a collection of evidence based and expertly developed practical tools, resources and interventions to support children, educators, health care professionals, government, research institutes and industry.
The resources include:
This alliance is a national research initiative that coordinates cross-sector collaboration to increase children’s vegetable intake.
The Vegetable Intake Strategic Alliance comprises a wide range of stakeholders including the horticulture industry, State and Commonwealth departments, nutrition and health agencies, research organisations, retailers, early learning and parenting organisations and various nonâgovernment organisations.
The current focus of the Vegetable Intake Strategic Alliance is to leverage knowledge, funding and collaboration to achieve a shared vision of increased vegetable intake among children and their families.
Find the latest reports and research into healthy eating in the research registry