Nutrition education feels boring, forgettable, and disconnected from what excites today’s kids.
More than 80% of Americans eat diets low in vegetables, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, not because vegetables taste bad, but because they’re unfamiliar.
Kids avoid what they don’t understand. No context for what broccoli tastes like. No story about where sweet potatoes come from. No reason to choose the unknown over the familiar.
Traditional nutrition education tells kids “eat your vegetables because they’re healthy” and expects that fact to compete with pizza, cookies, and chicken nuggets. It doesn’t work.