Carbon Insight
for Every Recipe

Forkprint provides an API to analyse food, compute carbon footprint at ingredient level and return structured sustainability insights instantly.

{ "recipe": "Chicken curry with rice" }

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Fast, Practical and Scalable

A lightweight alternative to full life cycle analysis, designed for real-world use.

Instant Results

Analyse recipes in seconds rather than weeks required for traditional LCA studies.

Cost Effective

Avoid expensive manual assessments while still obtaining reliable, actionable insights.

Built for Integration

Designed to plug directly into applications, menus and food platforms.

API First

Analyse recipes from URLs and retrieve detailed environmental data including ingredient emissions, transport impact and sourcing factors.

Input

{
  "url": "https://recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/iraqi-dolma"
}

Output

{
  "total_CO2": 3.82,
  "CO2_per_portion": 0.19,
  "servings": 20,
  "ingredients": [
    {
      "item": "lamb",
      "ingredient_carbon": 2.49,
      "transport_emissions": 0.32,
      "origin": "UK",
      "seasonality_factor": 1.0
    },
    {
      "item": "onions",
      "ingredient_carbon": 1.16,
      "transport_emissions": 0.08,
      "origin": "Netherlands",
      "seasonality_factor": 0.9
    }
  ],
  "insights": {
    "highest_impact": "lamb",
    "alternative": "chicken or lentils",
    "reduction_potential": 0.35
  }
}