Phat Pasty take the leap into Carbon Counting!
How do we do it?
Phat Pasty have teamed up with the industry leaders, Nutritics, who’s database of over 1.5 million foods with capability to create our own bespoke ingredients to carbon count each and every product we product.
What is Carbon Counting?
The total greenhouse gas emissions produced during the production, packaging, and transportation.
Why have we done it?
We wanted to be one of the first suppliers in the market to review our range, not only provide our customers better insight but to also better understand how we can make positive changes.
What have we found?
Unsurprisingly, meat based products are the highest of all with Beef having the largest carbon impact, with other meat based proteins such as Chicken being surprisingly low by comparison. We have a great selection of Vegan products throughout the range which carry a much smaller carbon footprint than that of meat based alternatives for our clients that wish to choose products based on their impact to the world.
How do we compare?
Having created all of our products, we thought it’d be a worthwhile exercise to understand how our products compare to the market and where best to start other than our Traditional Cornish Pasty?
University of Exeter carried out research a few years ago and found that the typical pasty contributes 1.5kg – 2kg CO2 per pasty. Using Nutritics, we’ve found that our Pasty comes out with 1.15kg CO2, despite having more meat in our Pasty than required to be classified as a Cornish Pasty (12.5%).
We thought we’d go one step further to see how using British Beef compares to using meat from overseas, such as cheaper alternatives from the likes of South America. We found updating our recipe to this alternative meat would increase the overall carbon impact by nearly 10%!
Compare that to a typical meat based roast dinner which equates to 3.2 - 5.0kg Co2, meaning, eat more Pasties!
Who else does Carbon Counting?
Business such as Wagamama, Nandos & Loungers also use Nutritics for their Carbon Counting.
The Phat Team