• Food is Primary Care®

    Food is Primary Care®

    Fresh Advantage® transforms institutional dining services with meals that heal, nurture, and satisfy.
    We work with dining service providers nationwide to bring wholesome, freshly prepared food to patients, residents, employees, and visitors.

  • We can help you meet the IRS community benefit requirement

    We can help you meet the IRS community benefit requirement

    Fresh Advantage assists nonprofit hospitals to meet the new IRS community benefit requirement through interactive, engaging hospital and community-based programs that start with the most essential element of human health: what we eat.

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    Transforming Food Service – introducing fresh, locally sourced, made-from-scratch meals that are tasty and nutritious to those you serve.

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    FA recognizes the profound impact that fresh, nutritious, and affordable food produced by sustainable methods plays in creating and maintaining health and productivity.

Our Services

Testimonials

“Fresh Advantage is a pioneer in reframing how food and nutrition must be incorporated into all health care practice—from acute care environments to outpatient and community-based settings. Not only is their leadership visionary and creative, they listened to our needs and goals and created a practical, cost-effective plan to completely reinvent our food service operation and mesh it with our research and therapeutic programs.There’s no end to the superlatives I can come up with to describe Marydale DeBor’s work as a consultant and colleague.”

Robert Cole
Chief Operating Officer, CMHC

Case Studies

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Read our Blog

Being a Kale Hero

Being a Kale Hero

In this National Kale Day interview, Marydale discusses two key strategies for transforming institutional food: first, the crucial importance of having the institution’s top leadership understand and promote the changes; and second, moving away from “food court” eating (too many choices, too many calories) to a simplified plant-based menu that uses the tastiest, most nutritious(...)

Improving Hospital Food

Improving Hospital Food

By Linda Shiue originally posted in http://www.culinate.com/articles/features/medical_awareness_nutrition July 30, 2013 While some medical students and doctors are becoming more savvy about nutrition, health, and cooking, the options for patients can still be generally summed up with the dismissive phrase “hospital food.” It’s not just the unpalatable Jell-O cups; nutrition is often ignored, too. At the(...)