Cooking Related Carbon Footprint Evaluation and Optimisation.

Carbon Footprint of foods has been a major concern for the past few years. Food production is responsible for a quarter of all GHG (Green House Gas) emissions. Many food’s Carbon Footprint calculators can be found online but most of them give individual results per ingredient and do not offer a perspective of the whole recipe’s Carbon Footprint. Many factors have to be taken into account for this calculation as the origin of the food, the location of the cooker, but also the way to cook and to assemble ingredients. In this paper, we present the CROPPER (CaRbon fOotprint reciPe oPtimizER) that improves an input recipe by updating its ingredients (origin, type) and its cooking procedures to reduce its Carbon Footprint while keeping it savory.