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
- Date
- 1943
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, War Food Administration (GPO)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, War Food Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-710B (NAID 514193).
Text on the object
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
