To expect my 12 year old to eat some fruit and veg

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Dd1 has always been pretty good about eating fruit and vegetables until now. But now in year 8 she seems to have stopped eating anything vaguely healthy unless I make her.
I give her fruit at breakfast which she usually eats half of and then runs out without finishing it. She takes salad/crudites and /or fruit in her packed lunch which comes home about 80% uneaten. If she buys food at school it doesn't feature any fruit or veg.
At dinner time I tend to pile her plate with veg which she does eat most of, but I can't fit five portions in one meal!
When I tried to speak to her about it this morning she got narky and defensive (surprise surprise). I was hoping that 12 years of eating healthily without too much argument would lead to her choosing to eat healthily as she gets older... Obviously I was kidding myself right?
Does anybody else's teen (or near teen) eat fruit or veg?

well, she is eating it... just not as much as you like.

Stop giving her money to spend at school on food, she might eat the food she is given then?

if you're worried, consider putting her on multi vitamin?

I honestly think that sounds pretty good for a 12 year old. I would back off, you might send her completely the other way, eating nothing healthy at all!

I wouldn't push it too much. It sounds like she's getting some fruit and veg and I think if you push her she'll assert her independence by ding the opposite. I would just make sure you serve food with veg naturally incorporated (e.g. past sauces etc). Maybe encourage her to do some of the cooking and let her cook meals of her choosing.

My 12 year old son used to be pretty good with his fruit and veg intake. Since starting at secondary school last September his diet has rapidly gone downhill.

He only eats veg when I serve it to him in the evening and he has to have fruit in the evening but he used to eat so much more!

He would have fruit with his breakfast but now he has to leave for school so early he can't face have anything (I was the same at his age). He would have a piece of fruit for morning snack at primary but morning break is so late at secondary that he's starving and uses half of his free school meals allowance buying pizza or bacon rolls. He does have the school dinner but sometimes I don't think they're up to much (burger and chips, any one?). I've tried sending him off with fruit or salad but it was coming home barely touched.

I think we can only set a good example while they're young and hope it comes back later.

I didn't anything vaguely health from about 13yo to 25 but I'm something of a health food obsessive now. The young seem to be able to function quite well on poor diets.

It does annoy me that all the work done on healthy diets in primary school is reversed as soon as they get to secondary though, with secondary schools still selling really poor food choices.