Which foods deliver the most nutritional value for the smallest environmental footprint?
Each food's Nutritional Value Score is set against its environmental footprint. Foods in the green “win-win” quadrant deliver high nutritional value at relatively low impact. Switch the impact category or functional unit to explore the trade-offs.
Each food is plotted by its Nutritional Value Score against its environmental footprint per 100 NVSs. Foods in the green quadrant deliver high nutritional value at relatively low impact.
Data: nLCA inventory for Indonesia (83 foods across 5 food groups; 7 lifecycle stages, 7impact categories). Impact methods and stages are country-native and not crosswalked across inventories. Values are expressed per 100 NVSs; the “per kg” view is an NVS-weighted denormalised estimate, and the “per 1,000 calories” view adjusts that estimate by each food's energy density where available. NVS values follow Beal & Ortenzi, The Journal of Nutrition (2026).