Thaliথালা

Build a Bengali meal dish by dish. Every dish carries a traffic-light label for calories, protein, price, value for money, carbon and environmental footprint — graded against the other dishes in its own course.

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Sorting ranks the dish list by any indicator at its default portion — tap once for highest first, again for lowest, a third time to clear.

Carbon factors aggregate Poore & Nemecek (2018) ingredient values to the dish, cradle to distribution. Nutrition is per cooked 100 g from public composition tables. Prices are indicative restaurant prices in Indian rupees, converted at a fixed rate. Dish illustrations are original artwork generated in the page, not photographs.

Screening-level estimates for menu decisions, not a verified inventory. Absolute values move with the emission-factor database while the ranking between dishes stays stable, so trust the order more than the number.

What the label means

Colour is relative, not absolute, but the scale is the same everywhere: each indicator is graded once across all 42 dishes, split at the lower and upper third, so green always means the same thing wherever you see it. Protein and value for money are green when high; price, carbon and EF are green when low. Energy is shown in white with no judgement. The number is always the real value for the serving you have chosen, so enlarging a portion can push a cell from green to amber to red.

Green — best third of all dishes Amber — middle third Red — worst third White — no judgement, energy is shown for information

mPt — millipoint of the Environmental Footprint single score: The EU Environmental Footprint method (EF 3.1) measures sixteen impacts — climate change, water use, land use, acidification, eutrophication, ozone depletion, particulate matter, several toxicity categories and resource depletion — then normalises each against what one average person causes in a year and weights them by policy-agreed severity. Adding the weighted results gives a single score in points (Pt). One Pt is roughly the total annual environmental burden of one average European citizen, so a millipoint (mPt) is one thousandth of that — about nine hours of one person's yearly impact. A dish at 0.9 mPt therefore carries just under a thousandth of a person-year of environmental burden.
kg CO₂e — carbon footprint: Greenhouse gases released from farm to distribution, converted to the mass of carbon dioxide that would warm the planet equally over a hundred years. It answers one question only; the EF score answers sixteen. The two usually agree on which dish is worst, which is why a carbon-led choice rarely misleads.
kcal / ₹ — value for money in energy: Calories bought per unit of currency. High is green because it means cheap energy, but it is not a nutrition judgement: fried and sweet dishes score well on it, which is precisely why it is shown next to protein rather than on its own.
Reference intakes: Percentages compare the serving with a day's allowance for one adult: 2,000 kcal, 50 g protein, 7.4 kg CO₂e for food consistent with 1.5 °C, and 2.74 mPt, which is one thousandth of a person-year divided across 365 days.