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Table of Contents Volume 48, Issue 2, Fall 2024 Editor’s Note Introduction and Overview of the issue Research In Action…

Welcome to the Fall Issue of The Journal of Child Nutrition & Management (JCN&M)!

Cooking for Kids, a culinary training program, conducted a needs assessment with key personnel in Oklahoma school nutrition programs to better understand the current training and resource needs of this population. Additionally, the needs assessment assessed barriers to accessing current training interventions offered by the program.

While recent policy changes have expanded the nutritional value of lunchroom food offerings, low levels of fruit and vegetable consumption at school remain a problem. This intervention was designed to assess whether low-cost changes could be employed to increase student selection and consumption of fruits and vegetables during elementary school lunch times.