FOR HOSPITALS & CARE ORGANISATIONS
Understand and improve your meals’ ecological and nutritional impact.
Managing meals in healthcare means balancing nutritional needs, taste, budgets and sustainability. Ecotarian brings environmental and nutritional insights into your recipe and menu planning.
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Analyse your recipes: calculate CO₂e, land use, water impact, nutritional values and Nutri-Score.
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Explore improvements: adjust recipes and see how ingredient changes affect their calculated impact.
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Plan and communicate: organise menu cycles and automatically display menus with ecolabels and Nutri-Score.
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Monitor and report: export recipe data and add meal sales volumes to calculate the total climate impact of the meals served.
See how UZ Brussel uses Ecotarian ↓
Case: from recipe to restaurant display at UZ Brussel
30%
Our project target
Reduce the environmental footprint of hospital meals by 30%, while improving nutritional quality and satisfaction among patients and staff.
Project target — results will be evaluated.
Menus & taste
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Review of staff, student and patient menus
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Recipe adjustments to lower environmental impact while preserving or improving taste
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More appealing dish names
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Kitchen workshops
Displays & reporting
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Planned menus automatically published on restaurant displays
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Ecolabel and Nutri-Score shown alongside each dish
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Reporting tools to support monitoring and further improvements
Recipes & planning
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Platform for automatic menu cycle planning and changes
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Automatic environmental impact calculations
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Nutritional values and Nutri-Score per recipe
Research & evaluation
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Academic support throughout the project
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Scientific analysis of project results
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Staff satisfaction surveys
Making sustainable food part of everyday kitchen practice.
From recipe adjustments and menu planning to clear information for guests: the project connects kitchen expertise with environmental and nutritional data.
The HEAL Project is funded through the SWIFFT Collective (VUB-HOST/ULB) Islands of Hope seed funding programme, supported by the Helios Foundation.
Need support beyond the platform?
Depending on your needs, we can work with specialist partners to combine Ecotarian’s data and tools with practical support for your kitchen team. The UZ Brussel project shows how these roles come together.