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Introducing Climate Conscious recipes

Introducing Climate Conscious recipes

Make sustainable choices with every serving
Make sustainable choices with every serving

Making mealtimes even more sustainable

Every week, you can add our new Climate Conscious recipes to your HelloFresh box. These recipes are responsible for the lowest amount of CO2e emissions on the weekly menu and produce at least 2/3 less carbon emissions than the average HelloFresh meal.
Look out for the special Climate Conscious tags on the recipes in your HelloFresh menu, and choose from several Climate Conscious recipes every week. Climate Conscious recipes are just as convenient, tasty and balanced as our other meals, but give you one more way to make everyday sustainable food choices with HelloFresh.
The easy way to make sustainable food choices

The easy way to make sustainable food choices

HelloFresh meals usually generate fewer emissions than traditional ways of feeding your family. A recent study shows that, on a global average, HelloFresh meals create 25% fewer CO2 emissions than the same meals made from supermarket ingredients.
Why Climate Conscious recipes are important

Why Climate Conscious recipes are important

Food choices are important for the climate. Food production and processing are major drivers of global CO2 emissions and contribute to the majority of a meal’s emissions. Knowing the environmental impact of certain foods can help you make more informed choices about the meals you cook at home. We have calculated the carbon footprint of our meals to give you the information you need to make more sustainable food choices.

When comparing the environmental impact of recipes, the most common metric is “CO2 equivalent” (CO2e), which includes the greenhouse gases that are emitted into the atmosphere during the production and processing of ingredients. CO2e is a more accurate representation of the climate impact of a recipe because it includes all relevant greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane and carbon dioxide, not just CO2. Your HelloFresh recipes reflect a calculation model that considers the greenhouse gas emissions generated by each of the ingredients included in your recipes.

How we choose our sustainable recipes

How we choose our sustainable recipes

HelloFresh has partnered with HowGood to calculate the CO2e impact of ingredients. HowGood has the world's largest database for product and ingredient sustainability, and draws data from hundreds of third-party scientific and peer-reviewed studies to conduct an ingredient-level CO2e impact assessment. We calculate the emissions per serving based on this information and the precise weight of each ingredient in your recipes.

The CO2e impact is analysed for every ingredient according to each HelloFresh region, taking into account the geographic growing and processing practices of every location. In some cases, when data is not available for an ingredient, we carefully select similar ingredients to use as estimates for the CO2e impact.

More information

For more information about HowGood’s CO2e impact modelling methodology,

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Want to know more about sustainability at HelloFresh?

  • 2/3 lower than the average carbon emissions of all HelloFresh recipes in the first half of 2022.

    For a small set of ingredients, proxies were used to estimate emission factors. The proxies were determined in accordance with guidelines provided by HowGood. However, HelloFresh, not HowGood, selected the proxies to estimate emissions, and determined whether emissions met HelloFresh’s standard for “Low Carbon.” HowGood has not performed any independent investigation into whether the proxies are accurate or reliable or whether the ingredients are “Low Carbon” and is not responsible for any reliance upon HelloFresh’s “Low Carbon” designation in consumer purchasing or other decisions.