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SAFAD
Sustainability Assessment of
Foods and Diets
Calculate the impact of foods and diets using eight environmental indicators and indicators for animal welfare and use of antibiotics.
Impacts from foods
Footprints shown here are for foods on the market of the choosen country, while considering the origin of the raw commodities. For example, a share of a commodity (e.g. wheat or tomateos) can be grown domestically while the rest is imported. The footprint of the commoditiy is thus an average of the footprint from these countries weighted according to the shares of the production taking place in different countries. Footprints here also account for waste in production, at the retailer and at the consumer.
Download footprints of all foods
Carbon footprint preview (per kg food)
Lifecycle Stage
Transport
Packaging
Processing
Manure management
Enteric fermentation
Land use change
Soil emissions
Capital goods
Energy, primary production
Mineral fertiliser production
- A.01.02.001 Wheat grain
- A.01.02.001.001 Wheat germ
- A.01.02.001.002 Wheat grain, Durum
- A.01.02.001.003 Wheat grain, soft
- A.01.02.001.004 Bulgur wheat
- A.01.02.002.001 Barley grain, whole
- A.01.02.002.002 Barley, pearled
- A.01.02.003 Corn grain
- A.01.02.004 Rye grain
- A.01.02.005 Spelt grain
- A.01.02.005.001 Spelt grain, rippen
- A.01.02.005.002 Spelt grain, unrippen
- A.01.02.006 Buckwheat grain
- A.01.02.007 Millet grain
- A.01.02.008 Oats, grain
- A.01.02.009 Rice
Environmental Impacts
Cropland use
Blue water use
New N use
New P use
Ammonia
Pesticides
Biodiversity impact from land use
Animal welfare index
Antibiotics use index
Impacts from diet
Selected diet: National Food Administration (2003), average diet of other children in Sweden
The footprints for the whole diet is calculated by multiplying the amount of different food products with the footprints of the food items. Download the footprints below, or see the charts on this page for examples of what the data can show.
Upon changing the country at the top of the page, another diet will be selected. If you want to test a modified or custom diet, you can upload a file towards the bottom of the page.
Download footprints of the selected diet
Impacts in relation to the planetary boundaries
Contributions to impacts from different food groups
Foods category
Other foods
Composite foods
Snacks and desserts
Alcoholic beverages
Non-alcoholic beverages
Sugar and confectionary
Fats and oils
Fruit
Fruit and vegetable juices
Vegetables
Legumes and nuts
Starchy products
Grain-based foods
Dairy products
Eggs
Fish and other seafood
Meat products
Contributions to impacts from different raw commodities
Commodity category
Other
Fruits
Vegetables
Legumes, nuts and oilseeds
Roots and tubers
Grains
Milk
Eggs
Fish and other seafood
Meats
Contributions to the carbon footprint from different gases and lifecycle stages
Nitrous oxide
Carbon dioxide
Methane, biogenic
Methane, fossil
Transport
Packaging
Processing
Manure management
Enteric fermentation
Mineral fertiliser
Energy, primary production
Capital goods
Soil emissions
Land use change
Configure Data
In the SAFAD tool, input data (Input, parameter, and emission factor files) can easily be configured. To configure a file, download the default file using the Download file button. Once configured, the custom file can be uploaded using the Upload Custom file. The custom file must be in the same format and uploaded as a .csv file. When all custom files are uploaded, the new footprint for the diet or foods can be downloaded.
Input Data
Footprints of raw primary commodities, e.g. wheat, tomatoes, beef etc.
SAFAD ID Footprints RPC.csv (default, last updated 2025-02-12)
Upload file... Specification of the diet to be assessed, i.e. amounts of different foods
SAFAD ID Diet Spec SE.csv (default, last updated 2024-03-20) Upload file... Parameter Files
Recipes of the foods, e.g. the amount of flour, oil and water in 1 kg bread
SAFAD IP Recipes.csv (default, last updated 2024-06-10) Upload file... Specification of the SFA recipe file
SAFAD IP SFA Recipes.csv (default, last updated 2025-02-04) Upload file... Origin and waste level of raw primary commodities
SAFAD IP Origin and Waste of RPC SE.csv (default, last updated 2024-09-09) Upload file... Energy demand for different processing processes
SAFAD IP Energy Proc.csv (default, last updated 2024-03-01) Upload file... Preparation Processes
SAFAD IP Preparation Processes.csv (default, last updated 2024-03-19) Upload file... Packaging codes for different foods
SAFAD IP Packaging.csv (default, last updated 2024-03-04) Upload file... Food waste at retail and at the consumer
SAFAD IP Waste Retail and Cons SE.csv (default, last updated 2024-03-04) Upload file... Emissions Factors
Emission factors for different packaging materials
SAFAD IEF Packaging.csv (default, last updated 2024-03-04) Upload file... Emission factors for energy sources
SAFAD IEF Energy.csv (default, last updated 2024-03-04) Upload file... Emission factors for transports between countries
SAFAD IEF Transport.csv (default, last updated 2024-03-08) Upload file... Download complete data package
Complete package of files
Download a zip-file with all input- and output files bundled together.