地域特産農産物を活用した食育教材開発プログラム

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We report the educational effectiveness of using real local fruits and vegetables to promote awareness and food education among public pre-elementary school children in Kurume. Two hundred children at 5 years old participated in two groups as either the subjects or controls, in this intervention study of 3 months' duration. There is a nationwide project in Japan to promote education about food. As part of this project, we have developed and tested out this new educational method ; showing them fresh fruits and vegetables as the actual ingredients of their daily school lunch, as well as their growing vegetables with farmers. We also produced and used flash-cards with photographs of the locally-produced fruit or vegetable on one side, and its cut-style with the name on the reverse. The aim of this study was to investigate whether learning by seeing and doing could increase interest in food education among children. The results showed a statistically significant improvement in educational awareness. We concluded that our using real fruits and vegetables was the key factor, and recommend this technique to other regions for assessment and adoption.