What Your Food Preferences Say about Your Personality
A recent study randomly selected 508 adults and categorized each of them as either a vegetable lover or fruit lover by using a cross-classification technique, based on their preference ratings for fruits and vegetables and by each participant’s self-perceptions. Vegetable lovers differed from fruit lovers in both their cooking habits and their food preferences as shown by the following chart:

Cooking Habit or Preference  Veggie Lovers  Fruit Lovers
 Have guests over for dinner More frequently Less frequently
 Claim to cook nutritious meals More frequently Less frequently
 Make new recipes they have
 never made before		 More frequently Less frequently
 Eat spicy food More frequently Less frequently
 Drink wine with dinner More frequently Less frequently
 Eat dessert after dinner Less frequently More frequently

So where do you fall? Are you the veggie or fruit lover? By focusing your efforts on your food preferences and cooking desires you can easily meet your nutrition needs and your "5 A Day" quota.

Action Sparked for the Fruit Lovers:
  • Try fruit as a replacement for desserts.
  • Snack on fruits between meals.
  • Serve raw fruit slices along with a dip.
  • Throw in a piece of fruit to have with your brown bag lunch.
  • Top pancakes, waffles, and cake with fruit.
  • Stir fruit into your favorite yogurt.
  • Add dried fruit to your hot cereal.
  • Enjoy a fruit-yogurt smoothie
  • Add fruit to chicken and tuna salads.
Action Sparked for the Vegetable Lovers:
  • Add variety to your meals by trying new veggie recipes.
  • Impress your family and friends with a new vegetable creation.
  • Add extra vegetables to your favorite soup, casserole, or stew.
  • Sauté your veggies in olive oil; add additional spices, herbs, lemon juice, nuts, cheese, or seeds for flavor.
  • Enjoy raw vegetables and dip with your meal or as a snack.
  • Start your meal with a new salad recipe.
  • Add chopped vegetables to tuna or chicken salads.
  • Add some extra veggies to your pizza.
  • Top a sandwich with your favorite vegetables.