As part of its efforts to help Americans eat better, the United States Healthful Food Council (USHFC) today released a list of Austin’s 25 most healthful and environmentally sustainable restaurants. Also known as the Austin REAL25, the initiative is part of the inauguration of its national Responsible Epicurean and Agricultural Leadership (REAL) program, which was recently introduced with healthy restaurant finder app, Tasteful, last month, and is being launched at annual South by Southwest (SXSW) festival held in Austin.

“Austin SXSW is the perfect place to launch REAL25,” said Lawrence Williams of the United States Healthful Food Council. “First, it attracts some of the world’s greatest innovative opinion leaders. Second, it has a progressive community that understands the health and environmental impacts of dietary choice. And third, Texas has one of the highest obesity rates in the nation.”

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The REAL25 algorithm takes into account a variety of factors such as: sourcing, scratch cooking, healthy ingredients and dietary restrictions. In addition, the curated list is analyzed by an Austin Local Advisory Board comprised of restaurateurs, chefs, nutritionists and authors with on-the-ground experience and expertise. All SXSW attendees can easily access the REAL25 Austin list in the Tasteful app.

The Austin REAL25 includes (in alphabetical order):

1) Blue Dahlia Bistro

2) Bouldin Creek Café

3) Casa de Luz

4) Conscious Cravings

5) Counter Culture

6) Daily Juice

7) Food For Fitness

8) Hillside Farmacy

9) Kome

10) Koriente Restaurant

11) Mother’s Café and Garden

12) Mr. Natural

13) Picnik Austin

14) Qui

15) Snap Kitchen

16) Soup Peddler

17) Snack Bar

18) The Steeping Room

19) Tacodeli

20) Thai Fresh

21) True Food Kitchen (Opening Soon)

22) Uchi

23) Unity Vegan Kitchen

24) The Vegan Nom

25) The Vegan Yacht