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►►►Photographic comparisons of lunch trays and analysis of menu productionrecords from the Compton Unifi e d School District (COM-CA) in Californiain 2004-05 showed that students eating farm to school salad bar lunches tookbetween 90% and 144% of recommended daily servings of fruit and vegetableswhile students eating hot lunches took between 40% and 60% of recommendedservings. Both groups of students took close to the recommended amounts ofproteins and grains. 20Results from the AES-OR program show that the average servings of fruits andvegetables taken by students rose from 1.26 (pre-salad bar) to 2.26, an increase of1 serving a day per child as a result of the farm to school salad bar program. 45During 2004-06, students from Jeff e rson Elementary School in the RiversideFarm to School Program (RSD-CA) who chose the hot lunch meal took 1.49servings of fruits and vegetables per meal, whereas students who chose a saladReview of Farm to School Evaluation LiteratureDigital photographs of salad bar lunch trays from Davis Joint Unified School District, CA►bar lunch took an average of 2.43 servings of fruits and vegetables per meal.Th u s, students who ate the salad bar received, on average, 63% more servingsof fruits and vegetables than students who ate the hot lunch meal. Salad barlunches met an average of 125% of USDA recommended daily allowances forfruits and vegetables for children. 47Olympia Unifi e d School District schools with Organic Salad Bar programs(OSB-WA) reported a 29% increase in fruits and vegetables taken by studentsat Lincoln Elementary and a 25% increase at Pioneer Elementary compared toschools where no salad bar was offered (2003-04 data). 48www.farmtoschool.org 33