INDIANAPOLIS, IN – The Produce Moms® has acquired the Best Health Eating Advocacy Enterprise Award from Global Health and Pharma at the 2018 Private Healthcare Awards for the work it has done to promote the consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, which, in doing so, promotes the health benefits that such consumption incurs.
“This award was especially meaningful to The Produce Moms because we were nominated for our work to bring more fresh produce to USDA school meals,” Lori Taylor, Founder of The Produce Moms explained in a press release. “This work includes the Power Up with Produce school show, starring USDA mascot Power Panther and NCAA student-athletes. The show was scripted by The Produce Moms to promote fresh produce consumption and serves as a complimentary effort to our culinary skills training for school foodservice professionals which began in March of 2017. Both the school show and the culinary trainings are ongoing.”
Not only is The Produce Moms excited to receive the award and proud of the positive impact it has had on school-aged children, but Global Health and Pharma feels thankful for The Produce Moms' work, as well.
According to Global Health & Pharma, “The healthcare industry is one of the most challenging, but also one of most rewarding, which is why we first created the Private Healthcare Awards, two years ago, to reward the most influential leaders and projects which make such difference to the lives of patients.”
With all of the work The Produce Moms has done to bring fresh produce to schools, it truly deserves the honor. Just last year The Produce Moms launched a K-12 School Initiative with participation in all 50 states to promote under-consumed fruit and vegetables in school meals. Taylor herself has traveled to D.C. to discuss fruit and vegetable consumption in school meals with congressional leaders from 14 states, and Taylor addressed California Educators about how they may implement The Produce Moms The Produce Challenge, a program supported by the American Farm Bureau and the State Department of Education, to participate in the National Agriculture in the Classroom program.
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