Track a meal in seconds
Recipes and single foods, from an apple to last night's curry. Every one already has its footprint worked out.
A free footprint calculator, for what you eat
Track your meals and see the CO₂e, land and water behind them add up, day by day and week by week. Free, in your browser, with nothing to install.
Work out your footprintYour CO₂e, day by day
See the kg of CO₂e behind each day and each week, and which meals made the most of it.
A daily CO₂ budget
Set your own budget for the day and see at a glance whether you stayed under it.
More than climate
Land, water and nutrient pollution too, and an overall figure that brings all the impacts together.
One score for your week
Your day or your week as a footprint score out of 100, from very low to very high.
Your nutrition beside it
One tap switches the whole view to your energy, protein, fibre, vitamins and more.
Where the numbers come from
Every ingredient carries life cycle figures from Agribalyse, the French public database, from the farm to your kitchen. We bring the impacts together with the EU's Product Environmental Footprint method. The results are well-founded estimates, not measurements of your own shopping. See how we score.
Questions about the footprint
How is the footprint rating calculated?
We look up life cycle data from Agribalyse for every ingredient in a recipe, bring the different impacts together with the EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method, and turn the result into one of five simple levels, from a very low to a very high footprint. You don't need to know any of this to use it, but if you're curious, here's the full story.
Which impacts are shown, and which others count towards the rating?
The app shows four: climate change, nutrient pollution, land use and water use. The rating itself weighs all sixteen impacts of the EU's Product Environmental Footprint method, which also cover things like air pollution, the use of fossil resources and damage to the ozone layer. We show four because they are the ones that matter most for food and are the easiest to picture. More about the four.
Does the footprint include cooking, packaging and transport?
Yes. Agribalyse follows each food through six stages: farming, processing, packaging, transport, the shop, and cooking in your kitchen. These are average figures for each ingredient, not measurements of your own packaging or your own oven. More about the data.
How accurate are the numbers?
They are well-founded estimates, not measurements. Each ingredient carries an average figure from AGRIBALYSE 3.1.1 (2023), the French public database, with some additions of our own, and a recipe's result depends on the ingredients and amounts entered. That is precise enough to tell a low footprint from a high one with confidence, which is what the five levels are for; small differences between two similar recipes mean little.
Does it matter if my ingredients are local or in season?
Not for the rating. Ecobite uses an average figure for each ingredient, so it can't tell where yours was grown, when, or how. That is less of a gap than it sounds: for most foods, what you eat counts for much more than where it came from, because transport is usually a small part of a food's footprint. What makes food sustainable?
See your footprint this week
Curious before you start? Every one of our foods and recipes shows its footprint, and you can compare two foods side by side.
Work out your footprint