Introducing the Nutritics Food Sustainability Score

Nutritics, the market leader in food data and technology solutions, is preparing to launch Foodprint: a unique solution that gives food businesses total transparency on the environmental impact of the foods they serve.

Foodprint is a fully automated, easy-to-use carbon footprint scoring, display and reporting system that helps food businesses to save time and money spent on life cycle assessment (LCA) consultants. The solution empowers both food businesses and their customers to make more informed, environmentally-conscious decisions. Foodprint combines the latest research with cutting-edge technology, all designed to help organisations on their journey to ‘net zero' carbon. Foodprint will officially launch in June 2022.

Nutritics have brought their best-in-class food data expertise to carbon labelling, to develop a proprietary technology that automatically matches your foods, recipes and dishes to peer reviewed LCA data sources, with a specific focus on the UK food supply chain. As you enter recipes into Nutritics, your Foodprint score is updated, taking into account the environmental impact specific to each ingredient. Changes made to foods, recipes and suppliers are updated in real time, allowing you to make changes to recipes to reduce their impact on the environment.

The system enables foodservice operators to better understand the impact of the food they serve, from field to fork, and supports environmentally-conscious decisions related to their dishes. The technology works across both sides of your business. Staff and management gain visibility and control over the carbon footprint of their supply chain and can track trends over time. For the customer, the display of carbon footprint scores on menus builds trust and loyalty, bringing them with you on your sustainability journey.

Sustainability: a growing consideration for customers

Climate change is a significant challenge to global agri-food systems, with the potential to affect all aspects of food security. Food production is estimated to contribute 26% of global carbon emissions. If we fail to improve the carbon footprint of the food sector, we cannot achieve the imperative goal of a 1.5° future set out in the Paris Agreement.

For many food businesses, practising more sustainable business methodologies is already becoming ingrained into everything they do. Each week, Nutritics is contacted by organisations that are in the process of trying to adapt their businesses for greater sustainability. Much of this is driven by the need to satisfy a global customer base that is increasingly attuned to environmental issues and making more conscious purchasing choices as a result.

This changing perspective towards sustainability is backed by research from IBM. In a report titled ‘Meet the 2020 Consumers Driving Change – Why Brands Must Deliver on Omnipresence, Agility and Sustainability,' the following was said of consumers' changing habits:

"Nearly six in 10 consumers (57%) are willing to change their purchasing habits to help reduce negative impact on the environment, and among those who say sustainability is important for them, this jumps to 77%. Moreover, of those who say these traits are very important, over seven in 10 are willing to pay a premium for brands that support recycling, practice sustainability and/or are environmentally responsible."

The same is true for employees, with 99% of hospitality staff wanting to work for a business with sustainable values.

Why Nutritics?

Nutritics understands the fundamentals of food data and how technology can be used to manage accuracy and compliance. Nutritics also has an incredible track record, offering best-in-class solutions to the foodservice market and ensuring that accurate and reliable food data are available in real time to help you manage recipes, print labels and comply with the latest industry regulations.

Nutritics is also on its own sustainability journey, with a goal to become carbon neutral by 2025. To help achieve this, and to support other food businesses, Nutritics has an in-house sustainability team made up of experienced environmental researchers, with a mix of PhD education and foodservice expertise.

Want to learn more?

Take the first step in your own sustainability journey. Get in touch today to learn more about Foodprint and how it can positively impact your business.