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Date: October 1, 2016
Event: Tour de Fresh Texas
Route Distances: 100k
About the Ride:
Tour de Fresh, presented by The California Giant Foundation, is the first-of-its-kind, collaborative event that unites the most significant brands and influencers in the fresh produce industry for a three-day cycling event that raises funds to benefit the Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools campaign. The inaugural event, in 2014, raised over $142,000 and placed over 40 salads bars in communities in 11 states. The 2015 and 2016 events also had success in multiple states, bringing the total funds raised after three years to just under $500,000 and placing over 130 salad bars in schools across the country.
The goal of the first ever Tour de Fresh regional event, scheduled for October 1, in Fort Worth, TX, and its participants is to place even more new salad bars in school districts across the country. At a cost of $3,100 per salad bar per school, sponsors and participants alike strongly believe that providing healthy eating opportunities for school children should be a requirement. Please join us in our cause to make a difference and provide access to fresh fruits and vegetables for kids in schools. Click here to register for Tour de Fresh Texas.
Both academic research and actual experience in schools across the country are increasingly demonstrating that school children significantly increase their consumption of fruits and vegetables when given a variety of choices in a school fruit and vegetable salad bar. When offered multiple fruit and vegetable choices, children respond by trying new items, incorporating greater variety into their diets, and increasing their daily consumption of fruits and vegetables.
The benefit of salad bars in schools extends beyond the healthy foods consumed during the breakfast or lunch hour. Increased daily access to a variety of fruits and vegetables provides a personal experience about choices that can shape behavior far beyond the school lunch line. Children learn to make decisions that carry over outside of school, providing a platform for a lifetime of healthy snack and meal choices.
The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity has endorsed schools using salad bars and upgrading cafeteria equipment to support providing healthier foods to kids. In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine concluded that schools need to add as many as two servings of fruits and vegetables daily to meals in order to meet children’s basic health requirements.
Many school districts are either unaware of the benefits salad bars can bring to their students, or have been unable to afford the basic equipment needed to adopt this strategy. The powerful health benefit that can come with a modern, food-safety compliant salad bar is too often blocked by the prohibitive capital cost in many school districts. Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools is creating the opportunity make change.
Tour de Fresh organizers are collaborating with the United Fresh Start Foundation to outreach to schools and facilitate salad bar donations.
Location: Snappy Salads, 6115 Camp Bowie Blvd #120 Fort Worth, TX 76116
Event Website: http://tourdefresh.com/texas
Registration: Online registration via Active.com
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