I'm a student, and I eat a lot of meals at my school's cafeteria. The problem is, they don't provide nutritional information, the the employees aren't exactly willing to help. Is there a site where I could find the nutritional information for certain food like salad or couscous?|||ask them. the government actually makes them have a list of nutritional facts of the food they're serving. if they dont give it to you, ask nicely if they could give you the ingredients so u could count them urself using a nutrition book.|||You don't. You or anyone else cannot know. You must make an educated guess on what is in the food. Try to break down what is in it...If you choose the simplest foods, that is easy...you can read from packages in store. As far as making good choices, pick fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, or steamed veggies and decline casseroles, or mixed things...they will be full of salt and fat. There is little food value in pale greens, choose dark greens, baby spring greens for your salad, and with all fruits and veggies, the more color the more the food value. In the US, though, the FDA figured out decades ago what was in the food grown then. You cannot be sure what is in food now because of flood control. (Why did the ancient Egyptians pray for the floods? soil replacement and enrichment) Farmers do not replenish their soil with all the nutrients that you are suppose to have...what the FDA said was in the food grown so long ago. There is no guarantee what is on the package is what is in the food...only what is suppose to be there. We are a gullible nation, believe what we are told even that old information like that is still correct. So it makes no difference what paper or books or FDA or science or a box or the internet says...it is not an assurance that there is much food value there. Take supplements for mineral replacement, eat fresh fruits and uncooked vegetables to get vitamins from them. It is nice to see someone cares about what they put in their bodies. I hope I did not scare you by my answers. Just inform your self and do not trust until verified by many sources. Sometimes your instincts are right!|||Forget about asking the staff the majority don't know and the rest don't care|||Restaurants are supposed to provide nutritional information to patrons upon request, but you will find that 90% of them will tell you that "they've run out" ---- (they haven't bothered to create or print or reprint- usually). A school cafteria absolutely should be providing this and you may want to get political about this situation. Try - http://www.fatfree.com/usda/usda.cgi or google nutrient value of foods.

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