The United States Healthful Food Council Releases List of Top 25 Healthiest Restaurants in Austin
Industry: Health & Fitness
United States Healthful Food Council (USHFC) today released a list of Austin’s 25 most healthful and environmentally sustainable restaurants
Washington, DC (PRUnderground) March 9th, 2016
As part of its efforts to help Americans eat better, the United States Healthful Food Council (USHFC) today released a list of Austin’s 25 most healthful and environmentally sustainable restaurants. Also known as the Austin REAL25, the initiative is part of the inauguration of its national Responsible Epicurean and Agricultural Leadership (REAL) program, which was recently introduced with healthy restaurant finder app, Tasteful, last month, and is being launched at annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival held in Austin.
“Austin SXSW is the perfect place to launch REAL25,” said Lawrence Williams of the United States Healthful Food Council. “First, it attracts some of the world’s greatest innovative opinion leaders. Second, it has a progressive community that understands the health and environmental impacts of dietary choice. And third, Texas has one of the highest obesity rates in the nation.”
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The REAL25 algorithm takes into account a variety of factors such as: sourcing, scratch cooking, healthy ingredients and dietary restrictions. In addition, the curated list is analyzed by an Austin Local Advisory Board comprised of restaurateurs, chefs, nutritionists and authors with on-the-ground experience and expertise. All SXSW attendees can easily access the REAL25 Austin list in the Tasteful app.
The Austin REAL25 includes (in alphabetical order):
1) Blue Dahlia Bistro
2) Bouldin Creek Café
3) Casa de Luz
4) Conscious Cravings
5) Counter Culture
6) Daily Juice
7) Food For Fitness
8) Hillside Farmacy
9) Kome
10) Koriente Restaurant
11) Mother’s Café and Garden
12) Mr. Natural
13) Picnik Austin
14) Qui
15) Snap Kitchen
16) Soup Peddler
17) Snack Bar
18) The Steeping Room
19) Tacodeli
20) Thai Fresh
21) True Food Kitchen (Opening Soon)
22) Uchi
23) Unity Vegan Kitchen
24) The Vegan Nom
25) The Vegan Yacht
“Part of our mission is helping people live healthy lifestyles, so we have partnered with the USHFC to recommend top real-food friendly restaurants by city nationwide,” said Eswar Priyadarshan, CEO of Tasteful. “With people from all over the country flooding into the city for SXSW, Austin is the ideal location to start.”
In addition to the recognition, each REAL25 restaurant is eligible to be audited and REAL Certified at no cost, due to the financial support of Tasteful. Other REAL25 sponsors include Steelite International and Sourcery.
About Eat REAL
Eat REAL® is a 501(c) (3) Public Health nonprofit organization based in Richmond, California. Eat REAL is dedicated to transforming food in K-12 schools, creating a healthier next generation and planet. Launched in 2012, Eat REAL Certified is a nutrition and sustainability best practices certification program working with school district food service leaders to raise the bar and make food in schools more nutritious and sustainable. Eat REAL’s core program currently supports 237 schools, reaching over 116,000 students.
