Iowa State University Dining (ISU Dining) serves a wide range of food options around campus, ranging from chicken to pizza to baked goods. Despite this, gaps can be found in the types of food available to students, particularly when it comes to options for those with dietary restrictions.<\/p>\n
Haley Roach, a senior majoring in microbiology, spoke about the decreasing vegetarian options on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI live over at Freddy Court, and over the years, they\u2019ve decreased the vegetarian options there,\u201d Roach said. \u201cThey used to have okay veggie burgers, but they switched to a vegan chicken thing that\u2019s really gross. They used to have two options for veggie breakfast burritos, and now there\u2019s none; there\u2019s only meat burritos.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roach said she would prefer more vegetarian options, and vegetarian protein options specifically.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWindows has a specific vegetarian area where there\u2019s always some sort of protein. But when you\u2019re vegetarian, you can\u2019t get all you want from any salad bar,\u201d Roach said.<\/p>\n
Other students stated that they wished more cultures were represented with food options at Iowa State.<\/p>\n
Phil Odhiambo, a freshman majoring in software engineering, believes that supplying more varied meal options can help international students adjust to food on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think adding cuisines from places like Africa [and] Middle Eastern countries would be nice,\u201d Odhiambo said. \u201cI think having a bit more variety and having foods from different countries would make some students be able to adjust to the food here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Odhiambo suggested adding common drinks from other parts of the world to ISU Dining options.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think having drinks from different countries, for example, mango lassi, would be nice to see, too,\u201d Odhiambo said.<\/p>\n
Anthony Garcia, a junior in management information systems, believes that African food would serve as a good addition to options on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to see African food, like Ghanaian or Nigerian food,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cThere\u2019s not that many options for that type of food in Ames in general. I\u2019m from Des Moines, so I feel like there\u2019s more options there. It\u2019s just a cool, different flavor that isn\u2019t really accessible here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iowa State University Dining (ISU Dining) serves a wide range of food options around campus, ranging from chicken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[97,269],"class_list":["post-556386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}