23ZIP, Inc. Success With 1-Million Plant-Based Meals
28 March 2023 - 8:15PM
Business Wire
23Ingredients Menu Improves Physical and Mental Health
When Alexia Parks won the first of six contracts to prepare and
deliver 1-million meals to 350 sheltered homeless in Riverside
County, CA, Parks knew that her bid was higher than that of a
competing global food catering company. What the global company did
not know was that during the COVID-19 pandemic, fresh, local
produce and products from small farmers would become more important
than the lowest cost meal.
Award-winning social-impact entrepreneur, Alexia Parks, is
founder and president of 23ZIP, Inc. First Food Responders 23ZIP,
Inc. First Food Responders, a diversified network of trained home
cooks and licensed chefs able to respond on demand to a local food
“emergency.” They learn how to safely prepare and deliver meals
using what Alexia Parks calls “miracle foods” 23Ingredients that
have been proven successful over 50-years by Joel Rauchwerger PhD,
former faculty at Baylor College of Medicine and co-author of First
Food Responders: People Are Hungry Feed Them Now! Here’s How!
According to the Mayo Clinic, high-fiber foods such as those
recommended in 23Ingredients can help prevent diseases such as
obesity, diabetes, dementia, and colorectal cancer.
23ZIP’s use of plant-based foods says Riverside County leader
Gayle Hoxter brings multiple nutritional and health benefits
to Project RoomKey. It offers America its first large-scale
demonstration of how specific foods can trigger the release of
positive chemicals in the GUT microbiome that - measurably from the
observation of the drivers who delivered the meals - begin to
reduce stress, anxiety, and depression.
The ability of local cooks to help people eat better food
brings many economic benefits to small farmers and the local
economy. Training a culturally diverse network of licensed cooks
also helps strengthen a community’s food resilience while
supporting environmental sustainability.
23ZIP Catalog of Courses 2023 in Applied Community Food
Security offer a Certificate of Completion and optional
university level credit from participating colleges and
universities including Colorado State University Continuing
Education and its public health and nursing network:
University of Northern Colorado and Anschutz Medical Campus
University of Colorado Denver.
All programs are developed by 23ZIP in partnership with its
tax-exempt non-profit partner, 10TRAITS.org. Scholarships available
for individuals who live in marginalized communities.
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