Nutrition

Healthy Eating

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.

Food Allergies and Dietary Needs

DeSales University Dining Services believes proper nutrition is key to student success in college. We take pride in serving you wholesome ingredients, preparing recipes accurately and providing nutritional analysis and ingredient statements through our online menus. From our general manager to our front line servers, we work carefully to address food allergies, celiac diets, or other special dietary needs.

For students with medical conditions that impact their ability to dine well on campus, we strongly encourage a conversation with our Executive Chef, Registered Dietitian and/or General Manager. In many instances, our dining team can easily assist with special needs.

Contact Information:

Registered Dietitian, Victoria Martinez: Victoria.Martinez@sodexo.com

Executive Chef, John Francisco: 610-282-1100 ext. 1410 | John.Francisco@desales.edu

General Manager, Rich Jacoby:610- 282-1100 ext.1321 | Rich.Jacoby@desales.edu

Occasionally, Dining Services cannot meet a student’s medical needs within normal service. We may require additional medical documentation to enable us to develop a more specific meal plan accommodation. In this situation, we ask that the student contact the DeSales University Office of Student Accessibility. Together, our departments work to serve our students with medical needs related to dining on campus. To contact the Student Accessibility Office at 610-282-1100 x1453 or accessibility@desales.edu.

Take a look at our variety of vegan/vegetarian and gluten free options that we have available across campus:

Every month, our campus dietitian releases a new edition of her Wellness Newsletter. Check out the archive below:

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.

My Zone

My Zone is our campus "pantry" where food items needed by students with Celiac disease or a gluten intolerance served with precautions against cross-contact. This area is free of gluten-containing ingredients and products.

Vegetarian

Menu items with the vegetarian icon 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

Vegan offerings contain no meat, fish, eggs, milk or other animal-derived products such as honey.

Allergy Icons

Logo Menu items with the milk bottle icon contain milk, cheese, butter, or other dairy derived items.

Gluten Allergy Icon Menu items with the wheat icon contain wheat rye, barley, or other gluten derived items.

Soy Allergy Icon Menu items with the soybean icon contain soybeans or other soy derived items.

Egg Allergy Icon Menu Items with the egg icon contain eggs.

Sesame Allergy Icon Menu items with the sesame seeds icon contain sesame.

Seafood Allergy Icon Menu items with the fish icon contain seafood.

Shellfish Allergy Icon Menu items with the clam shell icon contain shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, or other shellfish derived items.

Peanuts Allergy Icon Menu items with the peanut icon contain peanuts.

Tree Nuts Allergy Icon Menu items with the acorn icon contain almonds, cashews, pecans, walnuts, or other tree nut derived items.

Low Sodium

Menu items with the low sodium icon contain 140 milligrams of sodium or less per serving of food.