​THE PROBLEM

​Students living on campus usually purchase a meal plan and although food providers try to give a range of choices, if you have dietary restrictions, preferences, or want to eat healthier, you don’t get a lot of help. Giving up on “decoding” the menu, students end up on a cycle of eating a few “safe” foods or spend even more money buying outside food and/or suffer disordered eating.
Many school dining administrators are struggling to cater to the students' needs. Not because they don't want to, but because their current "solutions" haven't been affective. Most schools will try to cater to the problem by putting in more and more money into creating more food options at their school, when the biggest issue isn't a lack of food but the lack of awareness of what options are available to the students.

THE SOLUTION

Enlightened Eats is an app made to help students better navigate their dining halls. The app allows students to know what exactly is in the food options at their school from the ingredients to the macronutrients right from the user’s phone. The app aims to take an educational approach so that the students can see exactly how heathy their food choices are. Enlightened Eats also filters out all the ingredients the student avoids, whether for heath, religious, and/or ethical reasons, so the student can see all their options clearly and conveniently from their phone.

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