BM helps pioneer carbon labelling on menus

BM has become one of the first contract caterers in the UK to roll out carbon labelling on menus across its business and industry sites. By working in partnership with Nutritics, which provides the group’s nutritional software, the company now offers its team an automated carbon footprint scoring system which helps produce carbon labels for its menus.

FoodPrint will allow BM to generate a ‘carbon badge’ for each recipe that can be added onto menus, similar to nutritional traffic light labels on food packaging. Nutritics obtains carbon footprint data using data from suppliers if available and secondary data such as industry averages. 

The scoring system will account for the entire process of getting food from farm to plate The criteria will include the greenhouse gas emissions produced by growing, rearing, farming, processing and transporting. 

Sally Grimes, quality standards manager for at BM said: “Foodprint provides us with a reliable Scope 3 ESG reporting and carbon labelling system. Having this information empowers us to make more informed decisions to help reduce our carbon footprint, and allows our customers to see our sustainability journey, understand the impact of their food choices on the environment and make informed decisions themselves.”

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