Author: Britney Poe
Planning Unit: Robertson County CES
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Plan of Work: Nutrition and Health
Outcome: Initial Outcome
Consuming the recommended number of vegetables each day is linked to a reduced risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, and obesity. This equals 2 to 3 cups of vegetables a day, depending on age and gender.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 6.3 percent of adults in Kentucky meet the daily vegetable intake recommendations. To increase vegetable consumption in local adults, the Robertson County Extension office presented the Sensational Salad workshop during the Maysville Community & Technical College’s, Farm & Family Night.
Farm and Family Night is an annual event where participants could choose from a program of concurrent sessions on farm and home including cattle management, forage, alternative crops, technology, horticulture, wildlife management, sustainable agriculture, beekeeping, cooking, home management and health issues.
The Sensational Salads program lesson placed an emphasis on learning different types of salad greens and how to add other nutritious foods to turn a salad into a complete meal. This lesson was delivered deliberately in March to provide participants with new copies of the 2023 Recipe Calendar and provide discussion about the upcoming Farmer’s Market season, to further increase health benefits. During the presentation there were three different types of salads prepared for tasting.
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