Our database is at the core of all of our services. Developed in collaboration with scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Dalarna University it is the world’s most comprehensive database on the holistic sustainability of food.
The database links the ingredients in food products with information about their sustainability. All data is gathered from leading sources such as the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Swedish Food Agency, the European Food Safety Authority, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Amfori, the International Labour Organisation, and many more.
Consupedia assigns sustainability data to each product in three steps:
We are constantly adding new data sources and parameters as scientific knowledge about food and sustainability increases. Our tools utilize the power of the database in different ways. This makes it something of a swiss army knife — versatile and razor-sharp — ready to be used for sustainable change anywhere in the entire food system.
The basis of Consupedia’s score scale 1-100 was applied after long research with KTH, which is the best method for communicating sustainability footprints. The scoring scale is logarithmic.
This allows products with large differences in climate impact for example to fit on the same scale. Since the scale is logarithmic, we cannot assume that a product with 20 points is twice as good as one with 10 points. If a normal scale were to be used, a large part of the products would either be at the bottom or at the top of the scale and some in between. A logarithmic scale gives a more nuanced picture of climate impact.
KRAV-labeled and organic products receive bonuses on the parameters Biodiversity, Pesticides, Working Conditions, Antibiotic Resistance and Over-fertilization.
Our sustainability parameters
