About the VegKIT Project
Results from consecutive Australian Health Surveys show children are not consuming enough vegetables. In fact, only 6% of children aged 2-17 years of age eat the recommended amount. The $4 million, five-year national VegKIT project brings together ...
VegKIT Project – Supply chain initiatives
With the goal of increasing children’s vegetable intake, VegKIT has mapped out two initiatives that involve the industry supply chain and early primary school settings. There are two interlinking activities: Activity 1: Developing new vegetable ...
Global rating
What is the Global Rating? The Global Rating is an assessment tool used to determine the effectiveness of initiatives which aim to increase children’s vegetable consumption and has been developed as part of the VegKIT project. The tool consists of ...
Initiatives for childcare centres
What is the challenge? Childcare centres can provide more than half of a child’s daily food intake and, together with learning activities and shared meal experiences, play a pivotal role in shaping children’s dietary habits – including a love of ...
VegKIT Project – Early years advice to foster a love of vegetables
Research has identified that acceptance of vegetables is a key factor associated with children’s low intake. However, advice on how to encourage acceptance of vegetables in the early years of life is lacking. One of the key activities of the VegKIT ...
Best practice guidelines
Australian children’s vegetable intake is below recommended levels and increasing consumption remains a strong focus for health, nutrition and obesity prevention initiatives. Increasing vegetable consumption is an example of a clear synergy between ...
VegKIT Project – Register
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Privacy policy
Horticulture Innovation Australia Limited (ABN 716 021 001 49) is a not-for-profit, grower-owned research and development corporation for Australia’s horticulture Industry (“Hort Innovation”, “we” or “us”). Hort Innovation invests more than $100 ...
Frequently asked questions
How was VegKIT funded? This project was funded by Hort Innovation, using the vegetable research and development levy and contributions from the Australian Government. Hort Innovation is the grower-owned, not-for-profit research and development ...