Food Carbon Footprint & Environmental Impact (Agribalyse)

Look up the carbon footprint and full environmental impact of food products using ADEME Agribalyse — the French government's official life-cycle assessment (LCA) database ("empreinte carbone alimentaire", "impact environnemental", "bilan carbone aliment"). 2 455 food products, each scored across the 16 EU Environmental Footprint impact categories, from farm to plate.

This is the reference dataset behind most French food eco-scoring (Eco-score / Planet-score style labelling).

This actor is free. You only pay your own Apify platform usage.

Input

Field	Type	Description
queries	array	Food names in French: pomme, boeuf, lait… Empty = browse the whole database.
foodGroup	string	Restrict to one group, e.g. viandes, oeufs, poissons.
sortBy	string	Relevance, or carbon footprint / EF score ascending or descending.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	Cap per search term. Default 50.

Output

One item per food product, each with a status field (found / not_found / error). All impacts are expressed per kg of product.

{
  "status": "found",
  "productNameFr": "Abondance",
  "productNameEn": "Abondance cheese, from cow's milk",
  "foodGroup": "lait et produits laitiers",
  "foodSubGroup": "fromages",
  "codeAgb": "12112",
  "codeCiqual": "12112",
  "efSingleScoreMPt": 0.53606708,
  "dataQualityRating": 5,
  "preparation": "Pas de préparation",
  "packagingMaterial": "PACK AGB",
  "airFreighted": false,
  "unit": "per kg of product",
  "climateChangeKgCo2e": 4.9830797,
  "waterDepletionM3Deprived": 0.66368498,
  "landUsePt": 178.4429,
  "energyResourceDepletionMj": 32.429708,
  "acidificationMolHe": 0.074981339
}

Also included: ozone depletion, ionising radiation, photochemical ozone, fine particles, human toxicity (cancer / non-cancer), eutrophication (freshwater / marine / terrestrial), freshwater ecotoxicity and mineral resource depletion.

Use cases

• Food eco-scoring — power an Eco-score-style label or a carbon rating in a food app.
• Recipe & menu carbon accounting — sum the footprint of ingredients for restaurants or caterers.
• CSR & Scope 3 reporting — quantify the food-related emissions of a canteen or product range.
• Research & comparison — rank foods by impact (the classic beef-vs-lentils comparison, with official numbers).

Limitations & fair use

• Source: ADEME Agribalyse under the Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 (open licence, free to reuse with attribution).
• Search is French-language and matches the product name field.
• dataQualityRating (DQR) is Agribalyse's own data-quality index — lower is better (1 = excellent, 5 = weak). Check it before publishing figures.
• Values are averages for a representative product, not a specific brand or supplier.
• The actor retries with backoff and paces requests to stay polite to the source.

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