We partner with My Emissions to measure the impact of our food, you can find out more about them on their website.

They rely on a database of food emissions values to calculate the impact of a food, product, or meal. All these values are based on full life cycle assessments published in peer-reviewed journals.

My Emissions collects specific data from us to make the values as accurate as possible. This includes asking where and how all the ingredients were farmed, how the ingredients and recipe boxes are transported, and all the packaging used. This allows us to calculate a credible and reliable value based on the full journey of your Grubby boxes and recipes.

All the values are displayed in CO2e, which means ‘carbon dioxide equivalents’. This tells us the total impact of a product based on all the greenhouse gas emissions released. Whilst carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas, there are many others including methane and nitrous oxide. In order to properly assess the impact of a product, all these gasses must be assessed. To find out more about the My Emissions data, you can find that here.

Once we have calculated the CO2e impact of our recipes, we compare these against the CO2e impact of the equivalent recipe that contains meat, fish or dairy. You can find the full list of the comparisons we made here.