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The Real Food Calculator
The Real Food Calculator is a revolutionary tool students use to audit their campus’ dining purchasing. Built around our Real Food Standards, students collect invoices from their school’s dining manager, research the invoice line items against our Standards, and input their research into our Calculator application, which analyzes their campus’ purchasing patterns.
To date, over 1000 student researchers have researched over 585,000 unique food products, amounting to over $346,000,000.00 in campus dining purchases researched.
Over 200 institutions of higher education have signed up to participate.
Typical calculator process…
What happened to the old version of the calculator?
The last version of the calculator went offline and became unavailable due to organizational transitions. Over 2024, RFC built a new version of the calculator that is based on our 3.0 Standards.
What’s up with the new version of the calculator?!
How can we run the new calculator with the new standards?
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Upcoming Calculator Learning Sessions
Join us for an introductory Real Food Calculator Learning Session designed for anyone curious about how Real Food Standards 3.0 are implemented on campuses through our Real Food Calculator. You'll get an overview of Real Food values while we walk through the our calculating process, how products are evaluated and what kind of outputs you can expect. Whether you’re a student, campus administrator, vendor, or organizational ally, this session will give you a clear, accessible overview of the Real Food assessment process—and how you can use this tool to analyze your data and build a more just, transparent, and values-aligned campus food system.