Tag: produce prescriptions

USDA announced today an investment of more than $46 million in projects aimed to tackle food and nutrition insecurity in underserved communities, as well as support healthy diets by providing access to fruits and vegetables for eligible families.

Brighter Bites, a national nonprofit that delivers fresh fruits and vegetables directly into families’ hands, expands its reach through the Produce Rx program with the support of DoorDash and its Project DASH initiative.

Recently, the National Produce Prescription Collaborative hosted a fly-in that coincided with the first comprehensive Food is Medicine Summit hosted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in late January and early February.

Talk about produce prescriptions is widespread in the industry at present, based on hopes that they will help Americans’ embarrassing nutrition problems as well as low per-capita produce consumption.

At its annual Washington Conference September 14, the International Fresh Produce Association released a video it’s using for the medical community explaining and promoting fresh produce prescriptions.

Just in time for “National Fruits and Veggies Month,” a new study on the health benefits of produce prescriptions was published.

Produce “prescriptions,” which provide vouchers to low-income people for purchasing fruits and vegetables, work, according to a new study published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.

Today, About Fresh, a Boston based nonprofit committed to expanding access to high-quality, fresh food vital to people's health, wellbeing, and culture, announced a new agreement with FIS, the global leader in financial services technology, to strengthen their proprietary Fresh Connect food prescription platform.

Despite their short history, the reality is produce prescriptions (PRx) – while not yet widespread – are already here, rooted in evidence, and represent an opportunity to grow fruit and vegetable consumption in ways we have not fully capitalized on yet.

I doubt that the produce prescriptions idea, however well-intentioned, is likely to have much effect on fresh produce sales or consumption.