Healthy Beverage Initiative
Our UBC community members work and learn within a demanding, high-performance academic environment. Having access to nourishing food and beverages, and the necessary information to make healthy choices, helps them thrive. A Healthy Beverage Initiative is an important step towards changing our on-campus environment to better support their wellbeing.
Sugar sweetened beverages* are the single-largest contributor of added sugar in the diet. Recognizing this, the Food and Nutrition committee and all major food-provider stakeholders worked together with students, staff and faculty across the university to promote tap water consumption and reduce consumption of sugar sweetened beverages.
Action 1: Encourage tap water consumption
Explore and implement opportunities to adapt our environment to increase safe drinking water consumption.
Projects and Initiatives
- SEEDS sustainability projects
Action 2: Promote healthier beverage choices with our community.
Create a campaign to encourage our community members to make healthier, more nutritious beverage choices, and promote drinking water.
Projects and Initiatives
- UBC Drinks Tap Water Campaign
- SEEDS Sustainability Projects
Action 3: Modify our environment to support healthier beverage consumption.
Food service providers commit to making meaningful changes to the beverage environment to encourage healthier beverage choices.
- Negotiating pouring rights contracts
- Modifying dining halls