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Meal Analyser: Development Highlights
wildesoft.net designed and built Meal Analyser for Impact Measurement Ltd. It calculates the carbon, nutrition and energy impact of the food that schools, hospitals, restaurants and other caterers serve. These highlights cover March 2025 to May 2026.
At a glance
- Built from scratch and launched as a self-service online product
- 30+ new features delivered in its first 15 months
- 300+ code changes over 15 months of development
- About 17,000 lines of code across the website, its back end and a background reporting service
- 6 ways to analyse a dish: carbon, weekly servings, emission savings, scope emissions, ingredient spotlight, and nutrition and energy
- 3 ways to build a dish: from its name, from your own recipe, or from a recipe collection
- 5 data sources and services integrated, including Agribalyse, McCance and Widdowson's food composition data, Stripe and SendGrid
- From one kitchen to whole organisations, with sites grouped by region and division
What it means for Meal Analyser
- Research made practical. A proven method from the Strength2Food project now works for any caterer, without a spreadsheet.
- Results you can trust. AI gathers the dish and ingredient data, but every figure is calculated by the software and checked against the master calculation method.
- Sells itself online. A free trial, credits and online payments let new customers start without a sales call.
- Ready for large groups. Trusts and chains can manage their own people and report on every service they run.