HP 5.1 – Healthy Diet Programs

Healthy University Rating System (HURS)

University : Siam University

Country : Thailand

Web Address : https://sustainability.siam.edu

HP 5 Healthy Diet and Balanced Nutrition

[5.1] Comprehensive Healthy Diet Programs

Description:

Siam University promotes a healthy diet through written policy, nutrition and food-safety teaching, healthy and safe food markets, food-growing and cooking projects, and innovations in salt reduction, food security and healthy food products. All five types of initiative listed by HURS are in place (Table HP 5.1.1), with 17 programmes in Table HP 5.1.2.

1. Policy. Under Nutrition and Food Security, the Health and Well-being Policy commits the University to provide “a variety of nutritious, affordable, and inclusive food options” in campus dining and to offer healthy-eating education through workshops, resources and counselling. The Ethical Sourcing of Food and Supplies Policy requires food service providers to use fresh, locally sourced meat, milk and eggs, and the Green and Clean Campus Policy encourages all canteens to refuse single-use plastic and use biodegradable food containers. The canteens follow the Bangkok “Food Safety City” policy and are inspected by the district every year.

2. Nutrition and food-safety education. The General Education course 103-206 Diet, Health Care and Exercise is open to students of all majors every semester. It covers diet and nutrition, nutrition for disease prevention, food safety, nutrition labels, dietary supplements, health-food innovation and healthy lifestyle. On 13 June 2026 third-year Occupational Health and Safety students trained the canteen vendors and shop operators on food sanitation standards. In the community, Siam University lecturers trained risk groups in “3 Or 2 Sor” healthy living, including healthy food choices, and community leaders of NODE Phasi Charoen learned to cook healthy menus (20 September 2025). The Faculty of Science teaches food technology and food safety to secondary school students, and two pharmacy students represented Thailand at the CUPT–CRISU student forum on food sovereignty and security (August 2025).

3. Healthy and safe food markets. The Community Store brings fresh vegetables, local food and community products to campus on the first and third Friday of every month. At Khlong Lat Mayom Floating Market, Student Union members run the “Green Food Market” with a healthy food and vegetable zone, and “Health Week: Nutrition for Well-being” (5–6 July 2025) offered organic food tasting, a talk on brain food and plant-based products. On campus, the Phasi Charoen District Office, Public Health Service Center 62 and the Faculty of Medicine check the canteens every year – hygiene, utensils, hand swabs of food handlers and test kits on food samples – most recently on 18 June 2026. The Phasi Charoen Healthy Space partnership, led by the University’s Research Center for Community Development with ThaiHealth, has a working group for establishing a central market for safe fruit and vegetables.

4. Healthy food and vegetable production. Since 2023, staff and students of the Faculty of Business Administration have worked with the Khlong Bang Phathun community on a 5-rai urban agriculture network and the “Creative Green Market”, where local growers sell vegetables, fruit and home-cooked food; more than 250 staff and students take part each year, and the project won the Creating Impact category of the 2026 International Green Gown Awards. Suphatthara Phiban community keeps a communal organic vegetable garden, and the Faculty of Communication Arts trained three communities in home vegetable growing (“Green tent, green vegetables, good health”). From 19 April to 28 June 2026 the Siam Culinary Institute ran the first cohort of the Master Thai Chef Program, with intensive cooking practice and peer tasting.

5. Other innovative initiatives. The Faculty of Pharmacy’s “Kidney-Friendly University” campaign (from August 2026) works with campus food vendors on “less seasoning, less salt” and trains pharmacy students as change agents. With the Phasi Charoen District Office, the University runs the SIAM BKK Food Bank: the Student Union collected food and goods from February 2025, the Siam Fair (15–23 November 2025) donated dry food rations, and food is distributed to older, disabled, bedridden and low-income residents. From 28 September 2026 a digital elderly-care database, piloted in two communities, helps identify older, homebound and bedridden residents who need welfare and health support. Food Innovation students developed GRANOVA, a high-calcium oat bar with mixed nuts, which reached the national round of the Startup Thailand League 2026.

Table HP 5.1.1 – Healthy diet initiatives in the HURS list

Green: initiative in place and counted. “Photos” refers to the numbered sections of the photo table above.

Table HP 5.1.2 – Programmes, participation and results

Item = HURS initiative in Table HP 5.1.1. 8 of the 17 programmes ran in 2026. Sources: Sustainability Report 2025–2026, pp. 8–10, 18, 23, 25–27, 48, 90–91 and 167; SDG Report 2024–2025, pp. 15–17, 25 and 101; EAUC Green Gown Awards project page; SI 6.1 evidence (SIAM BKK Food Bank); HP 1.2 evidence report; course specification of 103-206.

Evidence to attach:

• Health and Well-being Policy and Ethical Sourcing Policy: https://sustainability.siam.edu/vision-mission-and-policies-for-sustainable-future/; Sustainability Report 2025–2026, pp. 8–10, 18, 23–27, 48 and 90–91: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/SDG_report_2025_2026.pdf

• SDG Report 2024–2025, pp. 15–17 and 25 (Community Store, Creative Green Market, Green Food Market, canteen inspection) and p. 101: https://sustainability.siam.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SDG-report-2024-2025.pdf

• Elderly-care database and SIAM BKK Food Bank: https://siam.edu/siam-university-elderly-database-phasi-charoen-2026/; canteen inspection 18 June 2026 (Phasi Charoen District Office): https://webportal.bangkok.go.th/phasicharoen/page/sub/15632/-/6/info/539679

• Vendor training 13 June 2026 (Department of Public Health): https://www.facebook.com/Ph.SiamUniversity/; GRANOVA oat bar: https://siam.edu/siam-university-wanderworld-team-startup-thailand-league-2026-national-round/

• Green Gown Awards 2026 – Winner, Creating Impact: https://www.eauc.org.uk/resources/resource/empowering-urban-agriculture-networks-for-creative-green-market-2026; Kidney-Friendly University: https://ffcthailand.org/news/pharmacy-kidney-care-2026; NODE Phasi Charoen: https://sites.google.com/view/nodepscr/home

• Course specification of 103-206 and enrolment figures; attendance and satisfaction results of the vendor training, Health Week and Master Thai Chef Program; Food Bank distribution records.