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title: Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 3 (potatoes, other vegetables and fruits)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-3-1943/
description: 'Folder panel in the ''Eat a Lunch That Packs a Punch!'' series: a cartoon cook in overalls dishes up food under the line ''Helps you dish it out!''.'
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[![Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 3, 1943 US poster: Folder panel in the 'Eat a Lunch That Packs a Punch!'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-3-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-3-1943.jpg)

# Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 3 (potatoes, other vegetables and fruits)

Folder panel in the 'Eat a Lunch That Packs a Punch!' series: a cartoon cook in overalls dishes up food under the line 'Helps you dish it out!', over a food-group wheel and a text block on potatoes and other vegetables and fruits. The technique is faint here; the cartoon and 'do yourself a favor' slogan lean on plain-folks appeal and a health-benefit claim.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

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## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Eat a lunch that packs a punch! (printed upside down)
HELPS YOU DISH IT OUT! (upside down)
FACTS ABOUT GROUP 3
POTATOES AND OTHER VEGETABLES AND FRUITS
For good, all-round nutrition, the long list of vegetables and fruits in this group provides a healthful variety of minerals and vitamins—rather than outstanding amounts of any one food value. So eat your favorites, raw, dried, cooked, frozen, or canned! They'll help you enjoy good health!
Give the humble potato its due! It's one of the most important foods in this group, and one of the best sources of food-energy and body-building proteins among the fruits and vegetables. It supplies iron and Vitamins B and C, too.
Eat some foods from this group EVERY day. All vegetables and fruits not included in Groups 1, 2, and 5 belong to this big food family.
At lunch and at home . . . eat the Basic 7 every day and do yourself a favor!
U. S. Department of Agriculture—War Food Administration
[imprint:] GPO
[wheel:] GROUP ONE; GROUP TWO; GROUP THREE; GREEN AND YELLOW VEGETABLES... some raw—some cooked, frozen or canned; ORANGES, TOMATOES, GRAPEFRUIT... or raw cabbage or salad greens; POTATOES AND OTHER VEGETABLES AND FRUITS raw, dried, cooked, frozen or canned; MILK AND MILK PRODUCTS...; POULTRY, [..] OR EGGS...; U.S. NEEDS US STRONG EAT THE BASIC 7 EVERY DAY
```

[← Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 2 (citrus, tomatoes, raw greens)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-2-1943/) [Eat a lunch that packs a punch! Facts about Group 4 (milk and milk products) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-a-lunch-that-packs-a-punch-group-4-1943/)

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