Discovering New Tastes

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 Hutsell Elementary won The Gold Award for the Healthier US School Challenge through Katy ISD Food Services.  As a part of this award, Katy ISD Food Services provided a "Discovering New Tastes" for our first graders.  Our students met with a nutritionist in the gym and watched a short DVD about nutrition.  Students learned about making healthy food choices by recognizing everyday foods such as fruits and vegetables and identifying foods which should not be eaten everyday such as cake and cookies.  After the DVD, students walked to the cafeteria to taste different fruits and vegetables. We ate some of our favorites, and tried some new foods too.   Before trying each fruit or vegetable, students would smell it, feel it and then taste it.  We tasted mini bell peppers, zucchini, sugar cane, cherimoya, sapote, and strawberries.  Students learned the following interesting facts:  Sapotes are native to central Mexico, one strawberry has an average of 200 seeds, and Mark Twain liked cherimoyas.  He said " It's the most delicious fruit known to man".  All students received a goodie bag with a bookmark and a pencil to take home.

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