Eat Your Rainbow, a vocabulary-packed sing-along song

Meet some colorful fruits and vegetables, and learn what makes them so healthy to eat, with this vocabulary-packed sing-along-song from Kids Learning Tube: Fruits and Veggies Nutrition Song for Kids.

Not only do the lyrics name so many of these colorful foods, but they also introduce the vitamins and minerals that make them so powerful. Follow along with the lyrics:

We are the rainbow of foods
that you should have in all your meals
Eat your rainbow every day
and great is how you will feel

We’ll give you essential vitamins
and also minerals
So when you get hungry to make sure you
sit and eat a rainbow

Let’s start with the color Red
we are some essential foods to eat

We are the Apple, Red Cabbage,
Tomato and Cherry

Red Pepper, Red Onion, Watermelon
and also Strawberry

Our important nutrients
you need to keep being healthy

Are Flavonoids, Lycopene,
Folate and Vitamin C

Our jobs to keep your heart
and your memory healthy

Pick one of us to fill the red color
on your plate and you’ll see

Orange and Yellow
are our group colors

We are Cantaloupe, Carrot,
Mango and Yellow Pepper

Butternut Squash, Papaya,
And Pineapple

Pumpkin, Orange
and the sweet potato

The Nutrients and vitamins
we provide to help you grow

Are Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A
And Vitamin C

We keep your Eyes, Heart and
Immune System Healthy

So you can live a long life
and continue to see

We are the rainbow of foods
that you should have in all your meals
Eat your rainbow every day
and great is how you will feel

We’ll give you essential vitamins
and also minerals
So when you get hungry to make sure you
sit and eat a rainbow

We are the Green group
And here’s who we are

Asparagus, Bok Choy, Green Grape
and Cucumber

Cabbage, Collards, Broccoli
And Green Beans

Green Pepper, Honey Dew,
Kale, Spinach, and Peas

Isothiocyanates and
Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Chlorophyll, Vitamin K
And Carotenoids

Are our Nutrients and Vitamins
that can bring you joy

We support Healthy eyes, Bones
and also your Teeth

But in order to get our support
First us you must eat

We’re the Blue and Purple group
And we come after Green

Dark Beans, Eggplant, Beet, Fig
Blue, and BlackBerry

Our possible Nutrients
come from Anthocyanin

We can help improve your memory
and healthy aging

We are the rainbow of foods
that you should have in all your meals
Eat your rainbow every day
and great is how you will feel

We’ll give you essential vitamins
and also minerals
So when you get hungry to make sure you
sit and eat a rainbow

We are the White Group
and the final one too

We are Ginger, Jicama, Onion,
and the Mushroom

Our possible Nutrients
come from our Flavonoids

We help your Heart and Good Cholesterol
so eat us don’t avoid

We are the rainbow of foods
that you should have in all your meals
Eat your rainbow every day
and great is how you will feel

We’ll give you essential vitamins
and also minerals
So when you get hungry to make sure you
sit and eat a rainbow

Next, watch these videos about fruits, vegetables, health, songs, rainbows, and more on TKSST:
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar, animated
• How the food you eat affects your gut
• How to slice (almost) every fruit
• Pipkin the rabbit eats crunchy celery
• Beet Beet, Sugar Beet and how sugar is made
• Go inside fruits and vegetables with stop motion
• Why are there so many types of apples?
• Nutrition with Animated Science
• It’s Watermelon Time: Watermelon by Tom Rosenthal