Tool for reducing climate impact of public meals while ensuring nutritional adequacy and acceptability and without increasing costs
OPTIMAT is a method for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from meals while ensuring nutritional adequacy and acceptability and without increasing costs by optimization analysis. The greater the reduction in greenhouse gases desired, the greater the difference between the optimized food list and the original one. A 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions requires quite small changes between food groups and some substitutions within food groups without reducing the acceptability of meals.
The project aims to encourage sustainable consumption and production by reducing climate impact while retaining nutritional adequacy and whithout increasing costs. Pilot studies in schools have shown that it is feasible to reduce the climate impact by 40 percent without decreasing acceptability of the new meals assessed by the amount consumed and plate waste.
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Fostering sustainable dietary habits through optimized school_brief.pdf
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