GrubHub analysis says these four Boston schools some of the healthiest colleges
They might be ordering pizzas after going out on the weekends, but students at a number of Boston schools are balancing those late-night eats with plenty of healthy meals, according to their delivery orders.
The food delivery service GrubHub analyzed orders sent to more than 100 universities in 47 states during the 2014-15 school year. They only looked at email addresses that ended in “.edu,’’ so students ordering mozzarella sticks from their gmail accounts at 3 a.m. weren’t considered.
To deem the “healthiest,’’ GrubHub considered 31 indicators of health, mostly by looking at what substitutions were made. So orders were counted if students substituted a side salad for fries, asked restaurants for dressing on the side or ordered brown rice instead of white. That means the list was based entirely on the content of delivery orders, not the on-campus dining options, student activity levels or how much the people ordering salads drink on the weekends.
Four Boston colleges made the top 50 list. Northeastern came in at number 16, Suffolk was 38, MIT was 45 and Boston College was 48. GrubHub noted that Harvard is one of the schools where students order the most vegetables, but the school didn’t make the top 50. (What they’re ordering with those vegetables is anyone’s guess).
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