Background: Nutrition education being a component of health education is
propitious to create awareness on how to source, prepare, combine and use food resources for
promoting good health among all groups of human beings; especially pregnant women who need
adequate nutrition for their physiological needs and improve the health of both the mother and
fetus. Studies have suggested that women have low dietary intake of fruits and vegetables. The
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a framework globally agreed for measuring
development, progress, and poverty reduction through focusing efforts on achieving significant
measureable improvement in people’s lives. One of the components of MDG5 is nutrition in
pregnancy; this component is the main focus of this study. Method: a quasi-experimental study
for quantitative method adopting pre-and post test control experimental analysis was used while
194 pregnant women were purposively selected from 11 randomly selected antenatal clinics in
Odogbolu local government area to participate. The nutrition intervention was for 3 months. FGD
together with structured-validated questionnaire administered before and after the intervention
were used to collect data. ANCOVA was used to test the two hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level.Result:
There were significant effects of the intervention on the knowledge (F (2.174) = 1554.466, P <.05)
and attitude (F (2.134) = 19.866, P <.05) of the women on fruits and vegetables consumption.
The findings revealed a positive effect of the intervention; the participants were relatively aware
of the importance of fruit and vegetables consumption in pregnancy after the intervention.
Conclusion: The nutrition education intervention appears to have changed the attitude of
pregnant women after the post test evaluation. Pregnant women apparently consumed more fruits
and vegetables than they were doing before the intervention. Therefore, intensive health education
should continuously be given to pregnant women on the value of fruit and vegetable.