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Popeye encourages children to eat more vegetables
Thailand
Friday 27 August 2010
FJ
A new study shows that children who regularly watched Popeye scoffing spinach doubled their vegetable intake.
A new study show that the Spinach-eating comic character “Popeye the Sailor” encouraged children to eat vegetables.
“We got the children planting vegetable seeds, taking part in fruit and vegetable tasting parties, cooking vegetable soup and watching Popeye cartoons,” said Professor Chutima Sirikulchayanonta, who led the research at Mahidol University in Bangkok.
And if Popeye does not appear any more on the British television since 2004, in Great Britain, spinach sales in canned food increased by 24 % last year to become one of the tinned vegetables the most sold in the country.
source : hindustan, telegraph, economic times
