The Ginger Café menu at Kona Community Hospital is being upgraded to increase fresh ingredients grown in Hawai‘i, expand vegetable forward dishes, and improve flavor for scratch cooked meals.

The initiative is named ‘Ai Pono, Ho‘omaka ana which translates to Eat Healthy, New Beginnings. The name, suggested by a nurse at the hospital, reflects the meaning of “made from scratch”. The program takes whole ingredients as they come from the farm to make healthy, nutrient dense meals.

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