The project aims to support New Zealanders in making more positive food choices and encouraging people to take more consideration of their diet for the betterment of their overall health. Although the Bayer Food Focus Project does not profess to be an update on the...
Fruit and vegetable (FV) intake is declining in New Zealand, and over half of New Zealand’s children do not meet the recommendation of two serves of fruit and three serves of vegetables daily (with even lower adherence among children in high-deprivation neighbourhoods). The aim of...
This ‘guide’ has been edited for NZ athletes, in conjunction with advice from the Ministry of Health, the Heart Foundation of NZ and Healthy Families Lower Hutt. The ‘guide’ aligns with NZ health messaging and the resource section is packed with websites to visit which...
All FreshChoice supermarkets in West Auckland have changed their aisles to make shopping for healthy food easier and they also provide recipe ideas for large families cooking on a budget. Each week at FreshChoice in Ranui and Glen Eden, a new recipe book appears in the...
Over one hundred families across West Auckland received free start up vegetable gardens and took part in a two day workshop on how to grow their own food and compost as part of My Backyard Garden Project. Healthy Families Waitakere share how they aim to increase the...
A useful map highlighting low cost food and transport in Dunedin...
Vegetables.co.nz and the Heart Foundation recently partnered with the Massey University Dietetic programme, to investigate the current food programmes being run in New Zealand schools. The purpose of this study was to investigate the teaching of food programmes taught to Year 7 and 8 students in...
This report takes a deep-dive into the self-reported fruit, vegetable and juice consumption of 145,000 Australian adults. ...
This study presents a literature review of the physical and mental health benefits associated with community food growing and gardening...
This resource provides information for planning authorities to utilise community food growing to encourage health within the community....
