Nutrition
Eating Healthy
Providing you with healthy options is something your dining team proudly does every day. We help you select delicious, nutritious and satisfying meals, snacks and desserts by highlighting well-balanced menu choices and providing nutritional information and tips to help you make choices that fit your needs.
Meet the Dietitian
Lin is a registered dietitian nutritionist recently joining the Sodexo Universities dining team to work with students in navigating the campus dining environment and to assist in meeting food preferences, nutritional needs and individual wellness goals. Lin holds a master's degree in health science along with certification as a health coach with years of clinical experience in the healthcare environment focusing on mindful eating, weight management and lifestyle nutrition counseling and education.
For questions or to schedule a consultation contact Lin here.
Food Allergies
Talk to Us about Your Food Allergies and Dietary Needs!
Students with special dietary needs are expected to communicate their dietary restrictions and requirements to the Dining Team. Further information may be requested from the disability services office. Additional information about the disability services office can be found here.
We take pride in serving you wholesome ingredients, preparing recipes accurately and providing nutritional analysis and ingredient statements through our online menus and nutrition calculator. From our general manager to our front line servers, we work carefully to address food allergies, celiac diets, or other special dietary needs.
We want to meet one-on-one with anyone who has individual dining needs to ensure that your dining experience is safe, delicious, and social. If you have a food allergy/special diet concern, please reach out to Lin!
Simple Zone
Simple Zone is a gluten-free and peanut and tree-nut free area reserved for people with allergies and other special diet needs.
- Simple Zone: A separate display, in our main dining area, provides
- Cereal: We offer Rice Chex in our normal cereal line, and we keep 2 additional other gluten-free cereals in a the Simple Zone area.
- Exceptions: We use canned beans, and occasionally canned specialty vegetables (such as baby corn, watercress, and chick peas). Our dressings are almost all gluten free
Students who need further assistance should contact Dining Services.
Mindful
Mindful is Sodexo's health & wellness approach that helps you make healthy choices second nature! We are committed to creating healthy environments for our customers. Central to this effort is providing healthy, nutritious foods. The result of this initiative is an approach that focuses on transparency of ingredients, delicious food, satisfying portions and clarity in message so that you can make Mindful choices!
Mindful offerings meet stringent nutritional criteria based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Each meal part is limited in calories, has fewer than 30% of calories as fat, fewer than 10 % of calories as saturated fat, and is restricted in sodium, and cholesterol. Look for the Mindful icon to indulge in the healthy and delicious items offered at each meal.
Vegetarian/Vegan
Our dining locations offer many items that are vegetarian and/or vegan.
Menu items with the vegetarian icon (VG) contain no meat, fish or poultry, or any meat products such as soup base. Our vegetarian offerings meet the needs of lacto-ovo vegetarians and may include eggs and/or dairy products.
Vegan (V) offerings contain no meat, fish, eggs, milk or other animal-derived products such as honey.
For more help finding vegetarian or vegan offerings please contact our executive chef, Paul Reid.