Division of Public Health Services,

Fruit and Vegetable Program (formerly the 5 A Day for Better Health Program)

Links to recipes that meet the Fruits & Veggies-More Matters® recipe criteria:

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

  • Recipe Search
  • More CDC Fruit and Vegetable Recipes

    • Explore the World with Fruits & Vegetables, Recipe Cards for Adults (set of 20 recipes)
    • Explore the World with Fruits & Vegetables, Recipe Cards for Kids (set of 10 recipes)
• Fruits and Veggies-More Matters®
• Produce for a Better Health Foundation

Fruit and Veggie Recipes (10 pages) 10 tasty and healthy recipes with photos.

Freezees (2 pages) Frozen fruit pops are a great treat on a hot summer day. Ask your kids to help you make them.

For more recipes see:

• NH Fruit & Veggie News
• CDC Fact Sheets

5 A Day Quantity Recipe Cookbook  (113 pages) and a flyer about the cookbook (1 page)

NOTE: Because the recipes in this cookbook do not meet the Fruits & Veggies-More Matters® recipe criteria, the cookbook will be removed from this website by January 1, 2009. An updated version of the cookbook is in development.

A collection of 40 tasty fruit and vegetable based recipes (25 to 100 servings) that can be used in:

• School Lunch Programs            
• Head Start Programs
• Camps
• Congregate Meal Sites
• College Food Service
• Cafeterias
• Restaurants

All the recipes conform to the USDA recipe format and also meet the 5 A Day recipe criteria. That means they are low in:

• Total fat
• Saturated fat
• Cholesterol
• Sodium

Appendices include:

• Original family-size recipes
• Survey forms
• Background information about the National School Lunch Program, the 5 A Day Program and food safety.

Learn More about the Fruit and Vegetable Program!

(Formerly the 5 A Day for Better Health Program)

also see Fruit and Veggie Basics