Colorado Potatoes holds video contest

STATEWIDE — Recently, two more salad bars were donated by the Colorado potato industry as part of their prize for winning the 2017 Colorado Potatoes Video Contest. Potatoes USA matched each donation, resulting in four salad bar donations total. 

The schools that received the salad bars were Elbert School and Mary Blair Elementary, Centennial Elementary and B. F. Kitchen Elementary in Loveland.

Colorado Potatoes is a proud supporter of the Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative. Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools is an initiative created with the goal of providing healthy eating opportunities for students in schools. Potatoes USA, the national potato marketing organizing, was inspired by this effort to create the Salad Bar Challenge, calling on the entire potato industry to get involved in the campaign. Potatoes USA also committed to matching each donation from the potato industry one-for one. The potato industry has now donated more salad bars to the program than any other sector of the produce industry. 

To date, Colorado potato growers have donated 16 salad bars. With the Potatoes USA matches, this has resulted in 32 salad bar donations. Many of these salad bars went to Colorado schools including several in the San Luis Valley. Colorado Potatoes will continue “Raising the Bar” at schools across the nation and ensure students have access to fruits and vegetables during lunch time!

The aim of Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools is to positively impact nutrition in schools. Having healthy foods easily accessible to students helps them make healthy choices at lunchtime.  Colorado Potatoes is proud to be a part of this program, which is promoting nutrition and helping students develop healthy eating habits early on.

Due to the success of the first video contest, Colorado Potatoes will be conducting it again in 2018.  Entries are being accepted now through March 1, 2018.  Please visit ColoradoPotato.org/VideoContest for complete rules and information.