FoodTrails:
The automated solution for tracking local food purchases and enhancing accountability in nutrition programs
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Key Benefits
Automatically determine food origin as local, regional, not local, or unknown to track progress toward local food purchasing goals
Gain comprehensive insights into real-time trends in food program spending, improving overall accountability
Automated data processing ensures high accuracy in reporting and decision-making
Distributors provide the velocity reports (spreadsheets with itemized purchases). The platform does the rest.
How FoodTrails Works
Upload Reports
School district managers upload velocity reports provided by their distributors
Automatic Processing
FoodTrails automatically categorizes purchases, standardizes units, fleshes out food origin information, and determines whether a product is local – based on your definition
Gain Insights
Administrators gain actionable insights into local food purchasing trends and identify opportunities across nutrition programs
Build Database
FoodTrails builds an aggregate product and supplier database, based on users' verified purchases