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Proven Success (Evaluations)

FOODPLAY is a research-based program with proven results!

FOODPLAY is a research-based program with proven results demonstrating outstanding improvements in student's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding nutrition and health issues.

You can use our professionally designed pre- and post-evaluation instrument to assess your students and demonstrate the dramatic impact of the FOODPLAY intervention. We provide everything you need for meeting your health and nutrition grant objectives. Call us at 1-800-FOODPLAY to find out more!

The following are the results from a major evaluation conducted by Dr. Catherine English, Food and Nutrition Department, University of Rhode Island under sponsorship by the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Departments of Education’s Nutrition Education & Training Programs.

Method: Pre and Post-test evaluations were administered to 1200 fourth graders throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island prior to and one week following the FOODPLAY intervention.

Summary: The “FOODPLAY” Program intervention showed dramatic results improving the nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors of 4th graders throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Results: One week following FOODPLAY

School Response: 80% of Teachers and Principals gave FOODPLAY the highest rating of “Excellent!” Parent Involvement: Over 62% of students reported telling their parents about what they learned from FOODPLAY when they got home from school.

Improved Changes in Student Behavior (Self-Reported)

In response to “In the past week have you...?”

80% reported “...eating more healthfully.”
68% reported “...eating breakfast more often.”
75% reported “...eating more fruits and vegetables.”
70% reported “...eating fewer sweets.”
69% reported “...drinking less soda.”
68% reported “...eating less fatty food like chips and greasy fast foods”
66% reported “...reading ingredient labels more often.”

Increased Nutrition Knowledge

63% were able to put all food groups in their correct place on the Food Pyramid.
(Up from 37% in pre-test)

75% correctly knew that Grains was the group from which to eat the most.
(Up from 18%)

FIVE A DAY

225% percent increase in student knowledge of “five” as the recommended daily number of fruits and vegetables.

LABEL READING

90% of students correctly identified the main ingredient of a food label.
(Up from 53%)

85% correctly reported that a can of cola has ten teaspoons of sugar.
(Up from 21%)

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