We've all heard the saying that food is fuel. And that's the message a group of kids are getting this week.

Sanford's Camp Fuel is a week-long day camp designed to get kids interested in healthy habits. And Tuesday they got to see just what it takes to get what they eat to their dinner table.

They're learning about serving sizes, why physical activity is important and where those leafy greens get their start.

“It's always interesting every year how excited they get to just see different vegetables, taste them, feel them" Sanford registered dietitian Teresa Beach said.

This year's day camp took campers to Hull, Iowa so they could get their hands on organic foods, something many may have never tasted.

“I think it's pretty cool, ya know? They don't spray chemicals on their food and it's teaching me a lot. I like it a lot," 11-year-old camper Julia Mitchell said.

“In our lifestyles, we don't even see that point of how they're grown, what they look like. We just see them on our table once mom cooks them and then maybe turn our nose up,” Beach said.

But these kids are learning to love their fruits and veggies and why eating healthy now is so important for their future.

“It's easier to start young and make those choices and eat those fruits and vegetables instead of when we're 30 and we have to lose some weight or maybe we have diabetes or we have all those other things and wow now I have to try and eat healthy and I haven't done that,” Beach said.

And in only the second day of camp, it's a message that's getting through.

“It's taught me a lot more about nutrition and the way I should eat and snack and all of that stuff and physical activity,” Mitchell said.

This week, the kids are also putting together a public service announcement that can then teach other kids why it's important a healthy lifestyle starts young.