System and Method for Determining the Environmental Impact and Sustainability Score of a Food Item using a Food Ingredient Repository

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having stored thereon processor-executable software instructions configured to cause a processor to perform operations for determining an environmental impact and sustainability score (EISS) of a food item, the operations comprising:

• receiving a food item description;
• determining one or more food ingredients based on the received food item description;
• determining a food ingredient EISS value for each of the determined food ingredients based on information retrieved from a food ingredient repository;
• determining a food item EISS value based on the determined food ingredient EISS values;
• and
• generating an EISS label based on the determined food item EISS value.

A computing device, comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• receive a food item description;
• determine one or more food ingredients based on the received food item description;
• determine a food ingredient environmental impact and sustainability score (EISS) value for each of the determined food ingredients based on information retrieved from a food ingredient repository;
• determine a food item EISS value based on the determined food ingredient EISS values;
• and
• generate an EISS label based on the determined food item EISS value.