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. 2018 May 17;2018(5):CD008552. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008552.pub5
Study Reason for exclusion
Aboud 2008 This responsive feeding trial was ineligible as its primary outcome was not to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and the study only assessed children's fruit and vegetable consumption post‐hoc in order to describe the mechanism behind a change in weight status among participants in the sample
Adams 2011 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Adams 2015 Not RCT: editorial
Agrawal 2012 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Ahearn 2001 Not RCT
Ahern 2014 Not RCT
Ajie 2016 Study design: not RCT
Al Bashabsheh 2016 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Alford 1971 Children aged 6‐17 years
Amin 2016 Participants were Grade 3‐5 children
Anderson 2014 Mean age of children 5.3 years
Anez 2013 Participant mean age 5.01 years
Ang 2016 Participants were 2nd and 3rd grade children
Anliker 1993 Children aged 14‐17 years
Anonymous 2001 Not RCT: Editorial
Anonymous 2002 Not RCT: editorial
Anonymous 2009 Not RCT: editorial
Anonymous 2011a Not RCT: editorial
Anonymous 2011b Children aged 5‐9 years
Anonymous 2012 Participants were 4th grade children
Apatu 2016 Participants were adult, no participants aged 0‐5 years
Aranceta‐Bartrina 2016 Not RCT
Arrow 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was dental caries incidence and prevalence of obesity
Au 2015a No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only assessed intake of fruit juice
Au 2015b No fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Au 2016 Mean age of participants was 9.8 years
Bai 2012 Participants were elementary school children
Bannon 2006 Outcome is food choice (apple or crackers)
Bante 2008 Not RCT
Baranowski 2002 Children aged 9‐18 years
Barkin 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was weight and BMI
Baxter 1998 Not RCT: Editorial
Bayer 2009 Child mean age 6 years
Beasley 2012 Children aged 8‐12 years
Beets 2016 Participants were aged 6‐12 years
Bellows 2013 Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption, intervention aimed to explore individual, family and environmental factors and their relationship to child weight status
Benjamin 2008 Outcome is quality of meals
Benjamin Neelon 2016 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only amount served
Bensley 2011 Quasi‐experiemental design
Bere 2015 Participants were 6th and 7th grade children
Berg 2016 Not RCT: book review
Bergman 2016 Participants were 3rd, 4th and 5th grade children
Berhe 1997 No comparison group
Berry 2013 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Bessems 2012 Children aged 12‐14 years
Best 2016 Children aged 7‐12 years
Bibiloni 2017 Study design: allocation to conditions not random
Birch 1980 Not randomised
Birch 1982 No control group
Birch 1998 Not RCT
Black 2013 Child mean age of subgroups ranged from 5.8‐11 years
Blissett 2012 No comparison group
Blom‐Hoffman 2008 Child mean age 6.2 years
Boaz 1998 Children aged 7‐9 years
Bollella 1999 Outcome is vitamins and minerals, not fruit and vegetable consumption
Bonvecchio‐Arenas 2010 Participants were primary school children
Borys 2016 Participants were aged 6‐8 years
Bouhlal 2014 Allocation of groups to condition was not randomised
Bradley 2014 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, outcome is preference
Brambilla 2010 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Branscum 2013 Children aged 8‐11 years
Briefel 2006 No comparison group
Briefel 2009 Children aged 6‐18 years
Briefel 2010 No comparison group
Briley 1999 No comparison group
Briley 2011 Not RCT: Editorial
Briley 2016 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was observed servings in packed lunch
Britt‐Rankin 2016 Not RCT ‐ review of resource
Brotman 2012 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Bruening 1999 Non‐equivalent control group design
Brunt 2012 Participants were 4th grade school children
Bryant 2017 Primary outcome not F&V consumption, primary outcomes was parent engagement
Burgermaster 2017 Participants were 5th grade students
Burgi 2011 Child mean age 5.2 years
Buttriss 2004 Not RCT: descriptive review
Byrd‐Bredbenner 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI and audits of home environment characteristics/lifestyle practice
Byrne 2002 Outcome was willingness to taste kohlrabi
Camelo 2016 Participants were children aged 6‐13 years
Campbell 2016a Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was body weight and waist circumference
Campbell 2016b Primary outcomes were length for age score and rates of stunting
Campbell 2017 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome reported
Candido 2013 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Capaldi‐Phillips 2014 Allocation of groups to condition was not randomised
Carney 2017 Not RCT
Carter 2005 Children aged 9‐12 years
Cason 2001 No comparison group
Castro 2013 Child mean age 6 years
Cates 2014 Not RCT
Caton 2014 Study design: results are not reported by study group. Additionally the paper reports data from 3 other included studies: Caton 2013; Hausner 2012; Remy 2013
Chatham 2016 Participants mean age 6.15 years
Chen 2015 Participants were aged 5‐8 years old
Ciampolini 1991 No comparison group
Clason 2016 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only number of days per week child consumes
Coelho 2012 Children aged 8‐12 years
Cohen 2014 Child mean age 8.6 years
Coleman 2005 No fruit and vegetable outcomes
Collins 2011 Child mean age 8 years
Condrasky 2006 Quasi‐experimental: intervention sample randomly selected from 1 church. Control randomly selected from a separate church
Cooper 2011 Children aged 5‐11 years
Cooperberg 2014 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Copeland 2010 Child mean age 9 years
Coppinger 2016 Children aged 5‐11 years
Corsini 2013 Participants were children with mean age 5.16 years
Cotwright 2015 No comparison group
Cotwright 2017 No comparison group ‐ pretest‐post‐test design
Coulthard 2018 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Court 1977 No participants, these are guidelines, not research trial
Crespo 2012 Child mean age 5.9 years
Croker 2012 Child mean age 8.3 years
Cruz 2014 As per trial registry, fruit and vegetable consumption was not the primary outcome
Cullen 2013 Participants were kindergarten‐grade 5 and grade 6‐8 children
Cullen 2015 Participants were kindergarten‐grade 5
Curtis 2012 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Céspedes 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was knowledge, attitudes and physical activity habits
Dai 2015 Child mean age 6 years
Dalton 2011 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Daniels 2012 Related to Daniels 2014 ‐ No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Dannefer 2017 Not RCT
Davis 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake as per trial registry
Davoli 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Day 2008 Child mean age 9‐10 years
Dazeley 2015 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only assessed foods touched and tasted
De Bourdeaudhuij 2015 Child mean age in intervention group 6.05 year and in control group 5.98 years
De Droog 2011 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only assessed liking and purchase request intent
De Droog 2012 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
De Pee 1998 No comparison group
De Silva‐Sanigorski 2010 Quasi‐experimental, repeat cross‐sectional design
Delgado 2014 Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption
Dick 2016 Not RCT: Editorial
Dollahite 2014 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Dorado 2015 Children aged 9‐10 years
Draper 2010 Participants were 4, 5 and 6 grade children
Duke 2011 Not RCT: descriptive review
Duncanson 2017 Related to Duncanson 2013 ‐ does not report RCT results
Dunn 2004 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Eicholzer‐Helbling 1986 Outcome no consumption measure
Elder 2014 Child mean age 6.6 years
Elizondo‐Montemayor 2014 Children aged 6‐12 years
Epstein 2001 Children aged 6‐11 years
Esfarjani 2013 Children aged 7 years
Esquivel 2016 Not RCT
Estabrooks 2009 Children aged 8‐12 years
Evans 2006 Children in 4th, 5th grade school
Evans 2011 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Evans 2016 Participants were 3rd grade children
Evenson 2016 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Faber 2002 Cross‐sectional survey
Faith 2006 The intervention programme was not specifically designed to increase consumption of fruit and vegetables; instead primary aim is to illustrate a methodological concept. “This methodological note illustrates the use of co‐twin design for testing substitution, phenomenon, a prominent behavioural economics concept. We test whether fruits and vegetables can substitute for high‐fat snack foods in young children in a single meal laboratory setting.”
Fangupo 2015 Primary outcome as reported in trial registry was not fruit or vegetable intake
Fernandes 2011 Not RCT: measurement tool
Fernández‐Alvira 2013 Child mean age 11 years
Fialkowski 2013 Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption
Fisher 2007 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Fisher 2013 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Fisher 2014 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Fishman 2016 Not RCT: Editorial
Fitzgibbon 2002 Outcome is weight change
Fitzpatrick 1997 Not RCT
Fletcher 2009 Children aged 13‐19 years
Foerster 1998 Children in 4th, 5th grade school
Folta 2006 Children in grades 1‐3 school
Fournet 2014 Children aged 6‐13 years
Freedman 2010 Outcome is child feeding attitudes and practices
French 2012 Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption
Frenn 2013 Participants were 5th, 7th and 8th grade students
Friedl 2014 Not RCT: task force report
Friend 2015a Participants were parents of 8‐12 year‐old children
Friend 2015b No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome reported
Gaglianone 2006 Participants were 1st and 2nd grade children
Gallo 2017 Participants were aged 6‐11 years
Gallotta 2016 Children aged 8‐11 years
Garcia‐Lascurain 2006 Participants were aged 9‐12 years
Gardiner 2017 Participants were at least 18 years of age
Gaughan 2016 No comparison group
Gelli 2016 Child mean age 7.5 years
Gentile 2009 Children in 3rd, 4th, 5th grade school
Gittelsohn 2010 Children aged 8‐12 years
Glanz 2012 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Glasper 2011 Not RCT: Editorial
Glasson 2012 Participants were parents of primary school‐aged children
Glasson 2013 Not RCT
Golley 2012 Child mean age 8.3 years
Gordon 2016 Fruit and vegetable intake not primary outcome as per contact with author very low food security is primary outcome
Gorham 2015 No comparison group
Gosliner 2010 Quasi‐experimental: childcare centres in existing study matched to other childcare centres, then randomised
Goto 2012 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Gottesman 2003 No participants, not research trial
Graham 2008 Outcome not fruit and vegetable consumption
Gratton 2007 Children aged 11‐16 years
Gregori 2014 No comparison group
Gripshover 2013 Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption
Gross 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was obesity
Guenther 2014 No participants aged 0‐5 years
Guldan 2000 Not RCT
Guo 2015 Participants were 3rd to 5th grade students
Haines 2016 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Hambleton 2004 Children aged 9‐10 years
Hammersley 2017 Primary outcome not fruit and vegetable intake, primary outcome is BMI
Hammons 2013 Children aged 5‐13 years
Hancocks 2011 Not RCT: Editorial
Hanks 2016 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Hansen 2016 Participants were children aged 6‐14 years
Hanson 2017 Not a randomised study design
Hardy 2010a No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only assessed lunchbox contents
Hardy 2010b No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Hare 2012 Child mean age 6.3 years
Haroun 2011 Participants were primary school children ‐ aged 4‐12 years old
Harris 2011 Children aged 5‐12 years
Hart 2016 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Harvey‐Berino 2003 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Havas 1997 No assessments of children included in study
Havermans 2007 Participants had mean age of 5.2 years
Heath 2010 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Heim 2009 Children in 4th and 6th grade school
Helland 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was food neophobia and staff feeding practices
Helland 2016 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was food neophobia and staff feeding practices
Helland 2017 No comparison group
Hendy 2002 No comparison group
Hendy 2011 Participants were 1st, 2nd and 4th grade children
Herbold 2001 Participants were 1st and 6th grade children
Herring 2016 Not RCT: Editorial
Hildebrand 2010 No comparison group
Hoddinott 2017 Primary outcome not fruit and vegetable intake as per trial registry
Hoffman 2011 Child mean age 6.2 years
Hoffman 2015 Participants were 6th‐12th grade children
Hohman 2017 F&V intake not primary outcome as per trial registry BMI is primary outcome
Hollar 2013 Participants were Kindergarten‐5th Grade children
Holley 2015 Not RCT ‐ allocation was not randomised
Hooft 2013 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Horne 2009 Child mean age 7 years
Horodynski 2004 Non‐equivalent control group study design
Hotz 2012a Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption, intervention aimed to increase the consumption of orange sweet potato over consumption of white and yellow sweet potato
Hotz 2012b Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption, intervention aimed to increase the consumption of orange sweet potato over consumption of white and yellow sweet potato
Howarth 2011 No comparison group
Hu 2010 Outcome is eating behaviours and weight, not fruit and vegetables
Hughes 2007 Outcome is feeding styles and behaviour
Hughes 2016 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Iaia 2017 Fruit and vegetable intake not primary outcome, primary outcome combined health behaviour score
IFIC 2002 Children aged 9‐12 years
Israelashvili 2005 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Issanchou 2017 Not RCT
Izumi 2013 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
James 1992 No comparison group
Jancey 2014 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Janicke 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Jansen 2010 Participants were children with mean age 5.8 years
Jansen 2017 Fruit and vegetable intake not primary outcome
Jayne 2009 Outcome is food choice
Johnson 1993 This study was excluded as fruit and vegetable consumption was measured in terms of dietitian‐classified 'appropriate' versus 'inappropriate' consumption levels, and as such, it failed to meet the inclusion criteria relating to the primary outcome
Johnson 2007 Outcome is food preference and ranking
Jordan 2010 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Joseph 2015a No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Joseph 2015b No comparison group
Just 2013 Participants were elementary school children
Kabahenda 2011 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Kain 2012 Participants aged 6‐12 years
Kalb 2005 No participants, not research trial
Kang 2017 Fruit and vegetable intake not primary outcome
Kannan 2016 Not RCT
Karanja 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Kashani 1991 Child mean age 10 years
Kaufman‐Shriqui 2016 Participants mean age 5.28 years
Kelder 1995 Children in 6th grade school
Keller 2014 Not RCT: Editorial
Kennedy 2011 Participants were adults
Kessler 2016 Not RCT: review
Khoshnevisan 2004 Dietary outcomes are not reported for the control group and no comparison is made between experimental conditions
Kidala 2000 Quasi‐experimental: 2 areas, 1 intervention, 1 control, not randomly selected
Kilaru 2005 Outcome is proportion being fed bananas
Kilicarslan 2010 Child mean age 9.3 years
Kimani‐Murage 2013 Primary outcome was exclusive breastfeeding
Kipping 2014 Participants aged 8‐9 years
Kipping 2016 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake
Knoblock‐Hahn 2016 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Knowlden 2015 Child mean age 5.18 years
Ko Linda 2016 No participants aged < 5
Koehler 2007 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Koff 2011 No comparison group
Kolodinsky 2017 No outcome data reported ‐ related to ongoing study Seguin 2017
Korwanich 2008 Quasi‐experimental: 8 intervention schools; 8 matched control schools
Kotler 2012 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only number of pieces of food consumed
Kotz 2010 Not RCT: Editorial
Kral 2010 Participants were children with mean age 5.9 years
Lanigan 2010 Not RCT: review
Laramy 2017 No comparison group
LaRowe 2010 No comparison group
Larson 2011 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Laureati 2014 Child mean age 7.9 years
Leahy 2008a No fruit and vegetable outcome
Leahy 2008b No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Leahy 2008c Fruit and vegetable consumption was secondary outcome
Ledoux 2017 No comparison group ‐ pretest‐posttest design
Leme 2015 Participants were adolescents
Lin 2017 No fruit and vegetable outcome
Ling 2016a No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Ling 2016b Not RCT
Lioret 2012 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Lioret 2015 Not RCT
Llargues 2011 Child mean age 6 years
Lloyd 2011 Participants were fathers of children aged 5‐12 years
Locard 1987 No comparison group
Lohse 2017 Not RCT ‐ Editorial
Longacre 2015 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Longley 2013 Not RCT: Editorial
Low 2007 Quasi‐experimental, 2 intervention areas, and 1 control area selected, in prospective longitudinal study
Luepker 1996 Child mean age 8.8 years
Lumeng 2012 Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption, intervention aimed to improve children's emotional and behavioural self regulation on preventing obesity
Maier 2007 Not RCT ‐ treatment group not randomised
Maier 2008 Not RCT
Maier‐Noth 2016 Not RCT
Maier‐Noth 2017 Not RCT
Malekafzali 2000 No fruit and vegetable consumption data
Mallan 2017 Related to Daniels 2014 ‐ only reports data from the control group
Manger 2012 Child mean age 5.7 years
Manios 1999 Not RCT
Manios 2009 No comparison group
Mann 2015 No outcome data ‐ related to ongoing study Østbye 2015
Mann 2017 Not RCT ‐ resource review
Markert 2014 Child mean age 9 years
Marquard 2011 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Martens 2008 Children aged 12‐14 years
Mathias 2012 Participants were children with mean age 5.4 years
Mbogori 2016 No comparison group
McGowan 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was parental habit strength
McKenzie 1996 Child mean age 6.3‐6.8 years
McSweeney 2017 F&V not primary outcome, primary outcomes were related to feasibility
Mehta 2014 No comparison group
Meinen 2012 Child mean age 9.9 years
Mennella 2017a No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Metcalfe 2016 Participants were children aged 8‐13 years
Metcalfe 2017 Participants aged 8‐14 years
Mok 2017 Fruit and vegetable not primary outcome, primary outcome Vitamin D plasma concentrations
Molitor 2016 No comparison group ‐ cross‐sectional study
Monterrosa 2013 Not RCT ‐ quasi‐experimental
Morgan 2016 Not RCT
Morgan 2017 Participants were aged 5‐12 years old
Morrill 2016 Participants were Grade 1‐5 students
Murimi 2017 No fruit and vegetable outcome
Nabors 2015 Participants mean age 6.12 years
Nansel 2016 Participants aged 8.0‐16.9 years
NAPNAP 2006 Guidelines not trial, so no participants
Natale 2014 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake as per trial registry
Nederkoorn 2018 Mean age of participants 5.85 years
Nemet 2007 Child mean age 5.5 years
Nemet 2008 Children aged 8‐11 years
Nemet 2011 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Nerud 2017 No fruit and vegetable intake outcome
Nicklas 2011 Not fruit and vegetable intake outcome reported, only preference.
Noller 2006 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Novotny 2011 Not RCT
Nunes 2017 Primary outcome is frequency of exclusive and total breastfeeding as per trial registry
Nystrom 2017 Fruit and vegetable not primary outcome, primary outcome was BMI
O'Connor 2010 No comparison group
O'Sullivan 2017 Fruit and vegetable not primary outcome ‐ primary outcomes relate‐school readiness, physical health etc
Ogle 2016 Participants aged 6‐9 years
Olvera 2010 Children aged 7‐13 years
Onnerfält 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Paineau 2010 Participants were children in 2nd and 3rd grade
Panunzio 2007 Children in 4th grade school
Parcel 1989 Children in 3rd, 4th grade school
Passehl 2004 Outcome is process evaluation
Peracchio 2016 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Perry 1985 Children in 3rd, 4th grade school
Persson 2018 Primary outcomes are children's body mass index and waist circumference at four years
Peters 2012a No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Poelman 2016a The average age was 5.1 years (SD 0.8, range 4‐6.8 years)
Poelman 2016b The average age was 5.1 years (SD 0.8, range 4‐6.8 years)
Polacsek 2017 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Prelip 2011 Participants were 3rd‐5th grade children
Presti 2015 Participants aged 5‐11 years
Prosper 2009 Child mean age 11.7 years
Puia 2017 Participants aged 5‐15 years
Quandt 2013 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Quizan‐Plata 2012 Participants were primary school children
Rackliffe 2016 Not RCT ‐ resource review
Rahman 1994 Outcome asks if vegetables eaten today (Yes/No). No amount provided
Ransley 2007 Non‐RCT. 1 intervention sample and 1 matched control sample
Raynor 2012 Child mean age 6.7 years
Reicks 2012 Children aged 9‐12 years
Reifsnider 2012 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Reinaerts 2007 Quasi‐experimental: consenting schools paired then randomised to 1 of 2 interventions. Control schools in different area identified and then matched
Reinbott 2016 Primary aim (as per trial registry) is mean height for age z‐scores
Reinehr 2011 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake, primary outcome was weight
Reverdy 2008 Children aged 8‐10 years
Reynolds 1998 Participants were 4th grade children
Reznar 2013 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only assessed diet quality
Ribeiro 2014 Children aged 6‐11 years
Rioux 2018 No fruit and vegetable intake outcome
Ritchie 2010 Children aged 9‐10 years
Rito 2013 Child mean age 8.6 years
Robertson 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was waist circumference and self‐esteem
Roche 2016 Not RCT ‐ quasi‐experimental non‐randomized study
Rogers 2013 Child mean age 11 years
Rohde 2017 As per trial registry, fruit and vegetable not primary outcome, anthropometry is primary outcome
Rohlfs 2013 Not RCT
Romo‐Palafox 2017 No comparison group
Rubenstein 2010 No fruit or vegetable intake outcome, only assessed child‐feeding practices
Ruottinen 2008 The intervention programme was not specifically designed to increase consumption of fruit and vegetables.
The aim of intervention, as reported in a separate paper (Lapinleimu 1995) isto investigate the effects of an individually supervised, eucaloric, diet with low content of fat, saturated fat and cholesterol in healthy children”
Salminen 2005 Children aged 6‐17 years
Sanders 2014 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Sanigorski 2008 Child mean age 8 years
Sanjur 1990 No fruit and vegetable outcome
Sanna 2011 Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption, intervention focused on dietary fat quality
Savage 2010 Comparison between treatment groups not reported for fruit and vegetable consumption
Scherr 2017 Participants were 4th grade students
Schmied 2015 Participants were parents of children with mean age of 10 years
Schumacher 2015 Child participants had median age of 12.9 years
Schwartz 2007a Study design used convenience sample
Schwartz 2007b Quasi‐experimental ‐ 2 elementary schools randomly allocated to 1 intervention and 1 control
Schwartz 2015 Not RCT
Sharafi 2016 Intervention did not aim to increase consumption of fruit or vegetables
Sharma 2016 Participants were 1st grade children
Sharps 2016 Participants were children aged 6‐11 years
Sherwood 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Shilts 2014 Not RCT as confirmed by author
Shim 2011 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Shin 2014 Participants were 4th‐6th grade children
Siega‐Riz 2004 No comparison group
Singh 2018 Not RCT
Skouteris 2014 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Slusser 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Smith 2013 No fruit and vegetable intake outcome
Smith 2015 No comparison group
Sobko 2011 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Sobko 2017 Not RCT
Sojkowski 2012 No comparison group
Solomons 1999 Review, not trial, no participants
Song 2016 Participants were 4th and 5th grade students
Sotos‐Prieto 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was change in overall knowledge, attitudes and habits
Speirs 2013 Participants were parents of elementary school children
Stark 1986 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Stark 2011 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Steenbock 2017 Not RCT ‐ allocation not randomised
Stern 2018 Participants were parents of children aged 5‐13 years
Story 2012 Participants mean age 5.84 years
Suarez‐Balcazar 2014 Participants were Kindergarten and 1st grade children
Sun 2017 No fruit and vegetable intake outcome
Sweitzer 2010 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was observed servings in packed lunch
Tande 2013 No comparison group
Taylor 2007 Child mean age 7.7 years
Taylor 2010 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Taylor 2013a Participants were primary school‐aged children 4‐11 years old
Taylor 2013b No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Taylor 2013c Primary outcome, as per trial registry, was not fruit or vegetable intake
Taylor 2015a Not RCT: review
Taylor 2015b Participants' mean age 6.5 years
Taylor 2016 Fruit and vegetable intake not primary outcome, primary outcome was anthropometric measures as per trial registry
Te Velde 2008 Children aged 10‐13 years
Tharrey 2017 Primary outcome was not fruit and vegetable intake
Thomson 2014 Fruit and vegetable intake not primary outcome, primary outcome was weight‐for‐length
Timms 2011 Not RCT: Editorial
Tobey 2016 Not RCT ‐ allocation not random
Tomayko 2016 Fruit and vegetable intake not primary outcome, primary outcome was BMI
Tomayko 2017 Not RCT ‐ allocation not random
Tovar 2017 Not RCT ‐ uses baseline data from an ongoing study ‐ Østbye 2015
Tran 2017 Not RCT
Trees 2012 No comparison group ‐ cross‐sectional survey
Tucker 2011 Participants were 4th and 5th grade school children
Tyler 2016 Participants were aged 8‐12 years
Uicab‐Pool 2009 Outcome was eating habits
Upton 2013 Participants were primary school children aged 4‐11 years
Upton 2014 Not RCT
Urrutia 2017 Not RCT
Utter 2017 Not a RCT
Van Horn 2005 Children aged 8‐10 years
Van Horn 2011 Not RCT: Editorial
Van Nassau 2015 Not RCT: commentary
Vandeweghe 2016 No fruit and vegetable intake outcome
Vaughn 2017 No fruit and vegetable outcome
Vecchiarelli 2005 Children school‐aged
Veldhuis 2009 Outcome was weight, not fruit and vegetable consumption
Viggiano 2012 Children aged 9‐19 years
Vio 2014 Not RCT
Vitolo 2010 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was Healthy Eating Index
Vitolo 2014 Fruit and vegetable intake not primary outcome, as per trial registry primary outcome was exclusive breastfeeding
Wald 2017 Participants had mean age of 5.5 years (intervention) or 5.4 years (control)
Walton 2015 Primary outcome, as per trial registry, was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Wansink 2013 Participants were middle school children
Wansink 2014 Participants were middle school children
Ward 2011 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was percent body fat
Ward 2017 Primary outcome is change in centre's nutrition environments
Wardle 2003b Child mean age 6 years
Warschburger 2018 Participants were children aged 8‐16 years
Wells 2005 Not RCT ‐ cross‐sectional
Wen 2007 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Wen 2011 Primary outcome: duration of breastfeeding and timing of introduction of solids, as described in the published research protocol
Wen 2013 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was good eating behaviour
Wen 2017 Fruit and vegetable intake was secondary outcome
Wengreen 2013 Participants were elementary school children
Whaley 2010 Study design in intervention and matched control site
Whiteside‐Mansell 2017 No fruit and vegetable intake outcome
Wijesinha‐Bettoni 2013 Children aged 6‐12 years
Williamson 2013 Participants were primary school children
Wilson 2016 No fruit and vegetable consumption outcome
Wyatt 2013 Children aged 9‐10 years
Wyse 2014 No child fruit or vegetable intake outcome
Yeh 2017 No fruit and vegetable intake outcome
Yin 2012 Intervention was not designed to increase fruit and/or vegetable consumption
Yoong 2017 Fruit and vegetable intake was not primary outcome, primary outcome was children's service compliance with dietary guidelines
Young 2017 No fruit and vegetable intake outcome
Zask 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome was BMI
Zeinstra 2010 Participants were children with mean age 5.1‐5.2 years
Zhou 2016 Participants were young adults
Zhou 2017 Not RCT
Zota 2016 Child mean age as reported by author 8.6 years
Zotor 2008 Children aged 11‐15 years
Østbye 2012 Primary outcome was not fruit or vegetable intake; primary outcome as per trial registry was BMI