In today's competitive food and beverage market, demonstrating credible sustainability credentials is essential. To stand out, you need data - not just commitments.
This article explains how Sustained enables food and beverage businesses to produce side-by-side environmental comparisons of products using robust, product-level lifecycle assessment (LCA) data. These comparisons help brands back up sustainability claims, support internal decision-making, and tell clear, credible stories to customers.
With growing scrutiny around greenwashing, companies need to show, not just tell, what makes their product better for the planet.
Sustained’s product comparison feature allows you to model and compare the environmental impact of two or more products across multiple indicators. Whether you're using a lower-impact ingredient, introducing new energy efficient machinery, or reformulating a recipe, you can now quantify the effect of those changes and demonstrate the difference.
One customer, a producer of innovative food alternatives, used Sustained to compare their product to a conventional benchmark using publicly available data. This allowed them to clearly communicate environmental benefits with confidence.
Unlike traditional LCA reports, which are often slow and static, Sustained connects directly to your existing product data infrastructure. That means your comparisons stay up to date as formulations, sourcing, or packaging evolves — without needing to start from scratch.
You can compare products across a wide range of criteria, including:
Sustained also highlights which parts of the product or lifecycle contribute most to its impact for example, ingredients vs. packaging, or distribution vs. production.
Product comparison reports support teams across your business:
With actionable, product-level insights, Sustained helps teams make informed choices, reduce environmental impact, and differentiate in a crowded marketplace.
Using the comparison tool is simple:
The comparison report will show a breakdown of total impact, environmental categories, lifecycle stages, and key contributors — helping you understand what drives your impact and where you can improve.
Sustainable products need sustainable proof. With Sustained’s comparison feature, you can show exactly how your products stack up and why that matters.
Whether you’re preparing for a customer meeting, developing a new product, or building customer trust, robust comparison data helps you cut through the noise and stand out with confidence.
Book a demo to see the comparison feature in action, or log in to your dashboard to try it now.