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UCANR: Promoting healthy people and communities
Teaching Kitchen course helps improve college students’ food security
  • Author: Katherine Lanca, UC Global Food Initiative Fellow, UC ANR Nutrition Policy Institute
Published on: December 5, 2022
A student in the Cal Teaching Kitchen sautes bell peppers in a frying pan
One approach to address food insecurity at UC Berkeley is a course on Personal Food Security and Wellness, with a Teaching Kitchen component that brings the lessons to life through knife skills, “no-cook” cooking, microwave cooking and sheet pan meals. Photo by Jim Block

Cooperative Extension researcher: Nutrition course a boon for UC Berkeley students

College students across the nation are struggling to meet their basic food needs. Within the University of California system of 280,000 students, 38% of undergraduate students and 20% of graduate students report food insecurity.

As part of the UC Global Food Initiative, in 2015 the Nutrition Policy Institute (a UC Agriculture and Natural Resources statewide research center)

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Tags: college students (1), food insecurity (3), food security (24), Katherine Lanca (1), NPI (2), Nutrition Policy Institute (25), Susana Matias (1), Teaching Kitchen (1), UC Berkeley (3), UC Global Food Initiative (2)
Focus Area Tags: Food, Health, Innovation
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USDA school kitchen grants enable kids to make healthy food choices
Jeannette E. Warnert
Published on: June 17, 2016
Children at Ygnacio Elementary School in Concord pick up lunch from a new serving counter.
Children at Ygnacio Elementary School in Concord pick up lunch from a new serving counter.

Thanks to new equipment in school kitchens, made possible by special USDA grants, schools around the country are now serving fresher, healthier and more appealing food to students, according to research by the UC Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI).

"Years of federal neglect have resulted in many poorly equipped school kitchens, making it impossible to serve the nutritious meals that students need, particularly in light of the obesity epidemic that has affected so many youngster," said Kenneth Hecht, NPI coordinator.

During the past six years, Congress provided nearly $200 million to help schools purchase new equipment. Pew Charitable Trusts...

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Tags: Kenneth Hecht (3), NPI (2), Nutrition Policy Institute (25)
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