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Plant Powered Metro New York empowers people to find better health and overcome chronic disease through whole food, plant-based nutrition.

10/24/2026

🌱🍽️ Discover plant-powered dining in NYC 💚
Our Plant Powered Plates restaurant initiative is bringing more delicious, healthy, plant-based options to restaurants across the New York Metro area!
✨Just in time for Fall, we’re highlighting peacefood cafe on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This welcoming restaurant serves fully plant-based dishes featuring flavors from around the world with something for every craving. Come enjoy delicious options from their all-day breakfast menu, stop by for lunch or dinner, or grab a refreshing smoothie or coffee!
🥗 What should you try? We recommend the Peacefood Bowl, raw sushi rolls, and their fluffy quinoa salad.
Next time you’re on the Upper West Side, stop by Peacefood and ask for their Plant Powered Plates dishes!
If you’ve visited Peacefood before, tell us your favorite plant-based dish in the comments! 👇🌿

10/22/2026

🌿 Can you support your body's natural collagen production on a plant-based diet?

Collagen plays an important role in skin structure, strength, and elasticity. While collagen itself is found naturally in animal products, your body needs a variety of nutrients to produce its own collagen. The good news? Many of these nutrients can be found in delicious plant-based foods! 🥦🥑

From broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and leafy greens to nuts, seeds, avocados, sweet potatoes, and bell peppers, a variety of whole plant foods can provide important nutrients that support collagen formation and overall skin health. Vitamin C, healthy fats, and antioxidants all play valuable roles in nourishing your body from the inside out.

In our “Skin Deep Health” presentation, dermatologist The Skin MD: Dr. Jessica Krant discusses how whole food, plant-based nutrition can support skin health and how you can nourish your body without relying on animal-derived supplements. ✨

🎥 Want to learn more about nutrition and skin health? Visit our YouTube channel
and search “Skin Deep” to watch the full presentation!

10/21/2026

Our Plant Powered Metro New York community gathered at Cafe Massawa in Morningside Heights for connection and for delicious East-African dishes made entirely from plants! The crew enjoyed savory and satisfying vegetable stews and spongy injera bread.

Cafe Massawa is a proud participant of our initiative, bringing plant-based dining options — low in added sugar, salt, and oil — to health conscious diners like you! More at: ppmny.org/plates

Thank you to our PPMNY volunteers, Durene Ngochan Tezock and Elaine Perlman, for hosting. 🙌

10/20/2026

At PPMNY, we celebrate nourishing and sustainable cuisines from around the globe.🌎🌱

Rather than asking our community to abandon beloved cultural dishes, we invite you to explore plant-based reinventions of these same traditional dishes — or dishes that started with plant foods in the first place.

Last month at “Your Neighbor’s Table”, our Climate Week event, we invited chefs to share these culinary creations with the public at LaGuardia Community College in LIC, Queens. Not only do these dishes uphold tradition while fostering our health — they also have a dramatically lighter environmental footprint compared to food sourced from animals. Plant foods use less land and water and have lower greenhouse gas emissions, among so many other benefits!

📕 We invite you to explore these dishes in your own kitchen. 👉 See our recipe booklet at: bit.ly/4d8jw94

💚 Thank you to all the chefs and educators who shared their culture, their passion, and their precious memories with us!

10/19/2026

🌱We’re serving up plant-powered bites across NYC!

This month, Plant Powered Metro New York is bringing delicious whole food, plant-based dishes to NYC Health + Hospitals employees at benefits fairs hosted by MetroPlusHealth! 💚

With 12 sites participating, our teams are sharing flavorful samples and showing how nourishing, plant-powered meals can make a difference. The excitement has been incredible, with lines out the door and rave reviews for our Street Corn Pasta Salad. 🤩🌽

By mid-November, we’ll have served thousands of people across NYC. We’re thrilled to share the power of nutrition with our community, one delicious bite at a time.

10/15/2026

Acne is one of the most common skin conditions worldwide, and research continues to explore the relationship between nutrition, lifestyle, and breakouts. What we do know is that everyday habits can have a meaningful impact on our overall health, including our skin!

In our “Skin Deep Health” presentation, The Skin MD: Dr. Jessica Krant explores the science behind the connection between nutrition and skin health, sharing evidence-based insights into how lifestyle interventions and whole food, plant-based nutrition may support healthier skin. 🌿

🎥 Visit our YouTube channel and search “Skin Deep” to watch the full presentation.

10/14/2026

Join PPMNY for interactive nutrition education classes offered through EmblemHealth’s Community Diabetes Wellness program at the Fordham Road EmblemHealth Neighborhood Care location in the Bronx.

🌱Thursday, October 29, 2:00 PM
Clear up common myths about diabetes and learn how diet can improve blood sugar, reduce the need for medications, and boost overall well-being.

🌱Monday, November 9, 1:00 PM
Learn how to transform everyday recipes using simple, affordable plant-based ingredients — without sacrificing flavor. Includes a tasting.

🌱Monday, November 23, 1:00 PM
Get hands-on practice decoding ingredient lists and Nutrition Facts labels. Includes a brief food demo and tasting featuring simple, affordable foods.

👉 Registration is open for the first session at ppmny.org/events. November sessions will open for registration soon.

10/12/2026

For 40 years, Enrica lived with lactose intolerance.

Her story began as early as kindergarten, when digestive issues became a part of her life. Over time, she came to accept those struggles as something she simply had to live with.
And isn’t that something many of us do?

When we experience ongoing health challenges, it can become easy to think, “This is just how my body is. I’ll take the medicine, manage the symptoms, and live with it.”

But what happens when we pause and take a closer look at what we’re putting on our plates? 🌱

For Enrica, making the transition to whole-food, plant-based eating meant removing dairy and changing the way she approached food. She experienced fewer bathroom trips, was finally able to lose weight in the way she had hoped, and felt that her relationship with food, and her health had changed for the better.Enrica’s experience is an invitation to look deeper, challenge what we’ve come to accept as “normal,” and consider what positive changes might be possible through the food choices we make every day.

👉 We invite you to start your own health journey! Learn about plant-based nutrition at: ppmny.org/what-is-wfpb

10/07/2026

When Rebecca Johnson, PPMNY’s Culinary Partnerships Manager, asked a child if they had ever “eaten the rainbow?”, she received an unexpected response:

“You mean Skittles?”

It might make you laugh, but think about what it says about the way food is marketed to kids.
“Eat the rainbow” has traditionally meant enjoying a colorful variety of fruits and vegetables. But when candy and other highly processed foods use bright colors and playful language, that message can get a little… mixed up.

So how do we change the conversation?

As we celebrate National Children’s Health Month, PPMNY is helping educate parents on how to make healthy food fun, flavorful, and exciting.

Rebecca shares why it’s not just about putting vegetables on a plate: “It’s about how we elevate them in the meal and how we prepare them.” The right flavors, textures, presentation, and preparation can help kids see vegetables in a whole new way and think of strawberries, carrots, peppers, spinach, and blueberries!🥕🍓

Now THAT’S a rainbow worth eating. 🌈

🔗 Watch Rebecca’s interview as part of our “Changemakers” virtual series at: bit.ly/4yMA9iJ

10/06/2026

📣 Now’s your last change to sign up for the Plant Powered Jumpstart for the fall season! Registration closes this Wednesday.

Take control of your health in just 21 days:
🏥 Reduce your need for meds
🩺 Improve your labs
✌️ Improve your mood
⚡️ Get more energy
👩🏾‍🍳 Learn how to prepare simple and delicious meals made from whole plant foods
💚 Receive real-time support from health and nutrition experts, and mentors

👉 Register now for FREE: ppmny.org/jumpstarts

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