Research on food security programs at UC Davis is showing the positive impact that access to healthy foods has on students’ nutrition and mental health as well as identifying the need for more food access resources on college campuses.
Marcela Radtke from the Nutritional Biology Graduate Group utilized tools like the veggie meter to measure students’ fruit and vegetable intake and then looked at how that changed when they used campus resources such as The Pantry.
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Chapters:
0:00 – Food insecurity impacts on students
0:30 – Measuring food insecurity
0:45 – Using the veggie meter
1:11 – Food access resources at UC Davis
Video description: Marcela Radtke sits at a small table outside and types on a laptop that is also connected to the veggie meter, a small black box. A student sits with Marcela and demonstrates how the veggie meter works. The student puts her finger in the box and the laptop displays a dial with a number for her score. There are scenes of students working in The Pantry and at a farmers market choosing food from bins of cherries and stacks of leafy greens and carrots.