- [Announcer] This module is sponsored by
the Children's Services Council of Broward County.
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- Today we're at Whole Foods
to find out about healthy foods and a balanced diet.
Let's go.
Hi. - Hi!
- I'm Penny. - Hi Penny.
- And these are the KidVision VPK kids
and we're here to find out about the USDA food plate.
- Awesome, I'm Vanessa, welcome to Whole Foods Market.
I've got a shopping cart.
Why don't we go find some healthy items for our plate?
- Going shopping!
Here we go, here we go.
Where are we?
- We are in the produce department.
So, here we are with all of our fruits.
- How do we know we're making healthy food choices?
- Well, that's a good question.
When half of our plate is fruits and vegetables,
we know we've made good choices.
We want to make sure that we're getting
all the colors of the rainbow on that plate.
Take a peak around
and see what fruits we have
that make the color of the rainbow.
- What color is this?
- [Both Children] Orange.
- Orange, and what color are the grapes?
- Green.
- [Penny] Green!
- [Vanessa] And how about that?
- What are these? - Red.
- Red strawberries.
So, this is like the colors of the rainbow.
If you eat the colors of the rainbow every day,
you'll be nice and healthy
and you'll be making healthy food choices.
Should we bring some of this, put it in our shopping cart?
Yes, which one would you like?
Ah, I guess we're gonna take some oranges,
oh, nice oranges.
And we need the green grapes,
red strawberries.
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Should we go from here to the vegetables?
- Absolutely. - Okay.
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- So, vegetables come in pretty colors, too.
Look at the orange on these carrots.
Would you like to take one?
Let's see how if we can tell how fresh they are.
- And look at these nice, red radishes.
Those are nice, right?
Yeah, let's put those in.
So, fresh is best, right?
- Absolutely.
- And how can you tell
if something is fresh and ready to eat?
- So, we want to look at it,
we're gonna use our senses, right?
So, first, we'll look at it, does it look fresh?
- Yes.
- It's got the nice, fresh, green tops.
And we can smell it.
Smells like a carrot.
- Oh, it does smell like a carrot.
- We want to make sure when we snap it,
that it's nice and crisp.
That will tell us that it's fresh.
Are you ready?
- Did you hear it?
- Ah! - Ah, I heard mine too!
- Mine too.
- And finally, we can taste it.
- [All] Mm.
- These are fresh.
- They are fresh, right from the garden.
- That's terrific.
Should we put these in our shopping cart?
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So, we did fruits, we did vegetables,
and now we're going to the dairy aisle.
- Okay, let's go!
Here we are.
We can see butter and milk.
These are dairy items.
- That's great.
Wow, I see there's different kinds of milk.
Could you read us the labels?
- Sure, so we have whole milk,
two percent reduced fat milk,
one percent low fat milk,
and skim milk, which is fat free.
- Which milk to you like best?
- Whole milk. (cow mooing)
- You like whole milk?
Good, so let's put that in our cart.
Good, that's great.
So, let's keep going along the dairy aisle.
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There's all kinds of things in the dairy aisle.
Look, there's yogurt.
- Cottage cheese, cream cheese.
- Look, there's american cheese, all kinds of cheese.
Oh, and I see ahead of us another food group,
the protein group.
- So, let's head on over to the seafood counter.
- [Penny] Excellent.
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- Protein makes up a quarter of our plate.
Fish is one type of protein.
Beans, meat, eggs and nuts,
those are other types of protein.
- Protein is weighed by the pound, it's sold by the pound.
- It is.
So, we can look and see how much the fish weigh,
how much do the shrimp weigh.
Let's see, what do you think they weigh?
Let's check it out.
- Let's see, let's see if they'll weigh a fish.
- Wow! - I wanna eat--
- That's a big fish.
Let's see how much it weighs.
It's 1.67 pounds.
I don't think that we need that much fish today,
so why don't we pick up a smaller,
we'll pick up a shrimp platter for our lunch.
- That's a good source of protein.
What other proteins do we have here?
- There's so many.
So many from the sea, lobster, shrimp, crab and scallops.
There's also different types of meat.
We have lamb, chicken, turkey,
those are all sources of protein, as well.
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Let's head over to the grains so we can complete our plate.
- It smells like fresh bread.
- So, here we are.
We're gonna pick up the last item for our plate,
which is grains.
Bread can be made from many different types of grains
like wheat, there's rye,
we have sourdough breads and cereal breads,
we even have breads made from quinoa and rice.
- So, grains can be many things.
It could be rice and cereals and breads.
So, grains are part of our food plate.
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Do you want to grab a bread?
Now let's make sure we have all the food groups.
- [Vanessa] So, we have our grains.
- [Penny] We have grains.
- [Vanessa] We have our vegetables.
- [Penny] Vegetables.
- [Female Child] Protein!
- [Vanessa] Our protein, wonderful.
And our dairy and our fruits.
- And if we eat all five food groups every day,
we're gonna have a balanced, nutritious diet.
And it will be a rainbow of different colors.
And what's at the end of the rainbow?
- [Both Children] A pot of gold!
- Gold, and if you eat the rainbow every day,
what is that pot of gold?
- [All] Healthy body!
- So you want to make sure you eat
lots of different types of foods
and all of the food groups every day.
- Like carrots.
- Like carrots, that's wonderful.
Thank you so much.
- You're so welcome.
- We're gonna check out, say goodbye.
- Well, thanks for shopping today.
I'll see you again soon in the aisles.
- You will.
Thank you for showing us Whole Foods.
- You're very welcome.
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