London, 27th September 2022: Benugo is thrilled to announce their partnership with the Natural History Museum (NHM) to introduce science-based carbon labelling for chilled food in its cafés and restaurants at this world famous venue.

The data and carbon labelling system has been developed and administered by Foodprint from Nutritics, a pioneering, fully automated and award-winning environmental impact scoring system for the hospitality and foodservice sector. Its labels highlight scoring levels of carbon impact from A-E, with A being the most climate-friendly choice. 

Following the pilot, Foodprint will be applied across the entire range of Benugo’s own food and drink and expanded to other Benugo sites.

Shane Kavanagh, Commercial Director at Benugo, commented: ‘We have been working on this project for some time, and are proud to launch this scheme with NHM and Nutritics.

‘We want to give our customers the option of making informed choices to reduce the carbon emissions associated with chilled food purchased from our sites at the Museum.

‘Using the Nutritics Foodprint solution enables us to use software we already successfully deploy for our nutritional calculations. It allows us to treat carbon in the same way we treat a nutritional value, applying it to every food and drink item for which we have a recipe.’

Stephen Nolan, Nutritics Managing Director said: ‘We are thrilled to launch our Foodprint environmental impact food labels through Benugo. The climate crisis is the most important issue of our generation and Foodprint will help put the hospitality sector on a path to more responsible sourcing, as well as help consumers understand the environmental impact of their food choices.’

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About Benugo

Benugo was founded in 1998 in Clerkenwell, London, by brothers Ben and Hugo. They had a vision of not just creating superb, natural food but of giving London something that was a real experience. This vision is still true today. 

The Benugo brand stretches from award-winning high street stores to cafés and restaurants within some of the world’s best-loved public spaces and high-volume visitor attractions such as the Natural History Museum, V&A, The Royal Parks, The British Museum, BFI Southbank, Edinburgh and Stirling Castles and John Lewis stores throughout the UK. A strong retail discipline, coupled with an independent and entrepreneurial spirit, underpins the whole brand. 

As the hospitality industry works towards a more sustainable future, Benugo strives to make better choices and is constantly updating policies in line with this.   

Benugo now serves carbon neutral coffee in collaboration with ClimatePartner across all outlets.  The new hot drinks menu allows customers to see the carbon footprint of the most impactful hot drinks so they can make an informed choice, with all cradle-to-grave emissions offset into certified projects as part of a wider carbon reduction programme. Benugo’s espresso blend is brewed with beans that are 100% Rainforest Alliance certified.     

Benugo has introduced wooden cutlery and paper straws, salad bowls are made from 70% recycled plastic or press cardboard, napkins are made from 100% recycled paper, all fruit and yoghurt pots are created using recycled plastic and are recyclable, hot drinks are served without lids unless customers ask for them (this reduces plastic lid usage by 60%) and all plastic bottles are recyclable. Benugo also has its own endlessly refillable, infinitely reusable aluminium water bottle; refilling it just 10 times avoids 70g of plastic waste and 790g of CO2 emissions.


About Foodprint from Nutritics

Foodprint from Nutritics is the pioneering, fully automated environmental impact scoring system for the hospitality and foodservice sector. Credible, evidence-based, accurate and easy to implement, Foodprint is putting the Hospitality and Food Sector on a path to more responsible sourcing.

For more information, contact Fleet Street for Foodprint from Nutritics: foodprint@fsc.uk.com.