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The food supply chain is responsible for one quarter of antropogenic green-house gas emissions worldwide¹.
With the myCookPrint calculator, you can estimate the carbon footprint of a meal, including food production, transportation and preparation.

The myCookPrint calculator is based on two main datasets released by French government agencies as open data (Licence Ouverte):

• the AGRIBALYSE® database (v. 3.2, 2024-12-04) provided by the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME) containing the environmental analysis of food products;
• the CIQUAL (v. 2020-07-03) and CALNUT 2020 (v. 2020-08-28) food composition databases provided by the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational health safety (ANSES).

As such, the results are valid for medium standard products consumed in France. However, they might be used as as first proxy also in other European countries.

Additional data regarding the carbon content of energy sources are issued from:

• Electricity Maps' Carbon Intensity Data (2025-01-27, mean 2022-2024 yearly values);
• Base carbone® (v. 23.4, 2025-01-02) provided by the French Agency for Ecological Transition (ADEME)

The source code of the calculator as well as the data sources and data-processing pipelines are available in the Github repository of the project.

¹Poore, J., & Nemecek, T. (2018). Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers. Science, 360(6392), 987–992. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq0216