Kuri

Cook with what’s in season and reduce your carbon footprint

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Cook with what’s in season and reduce your carbon footprint

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Kuri suggests low-carbon recipes that fit your dietary preferences, and adapt to what's in season around you.

Launch tags:iOS•Cooking•Climate Tech

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Kuri

Maker

Hey everyone 👋 and happy World Environment Day 🌎 I’m Baptiste, one of the makers of Kuri, a personalized cooking app on iOS that makes it easy to adopt sustainable eating habits. 🔥 Our eating habits play a major role in climate change: it’s estimated that 27% of greenhouse gas emissions come from the agriculture sector (McKinsey, 2019). With Kuri, we wanted to make it easy to switch to a healthier, more sustainable diet that focuses on seasonal, low-emissions cooking. What makes Kuri unique as a cooking app: 🌱 adapts to what’s in-season around you. The carbon footprint of a tomato grown out-of-season is roughly 7 times bigger than when grown in-season (ADEME, 2018). Kuri is the first app that "localizes" seasonality: what’s shown as in-season will be different whether you’re in California or in London*. 🌎 calculates and displays the carbon footprint of our recipes. Taking into the impact of seasonality as well, Kuri is the first cooking app that calculates the carbon footprint of its recipes, helping you understand and make educated, sustainable eating decisions. ✌️ also adapts to your dietary preferences and lifestyle (diet, allergies, grocery habits and cooking level), so you’ll never see something you can’t/won’t eat. One of our hypothesis was that Kuri could help people cut their dietary carbon footprint in half, if given the right tool, the right meal suggestions, considering what’s in season around them. Results with our early adopters (a majority of flexitarians/carnivores) are very encouraging: 📉 average carbon footprint of the recipes cooked by our users is 57% smaller than the average meal’s footprint 🥦 92% of the recipes cooked by our users were without meat ✅ so despite being used mostly by carnivores, users chose to cook meals with a much smaller carbon footprint, without meat. Kuri is exclusively available on iOS at the moment, and is completely free to use. Soon, Kuri will offer: - personalized, low carbon meal plans w/ optimal nutrition - grocery delivery through Instacart/Amazon Fresh (“shoppable recipes” app) - subscription plan for premium features (nutritional data, etc., coming this summer) - tips on how to reduce food waste, what’s grown locally around you, and more. * Kuri currently covers the seasonality of the following regions: the U.S. (cut into 6 different regions), Canada, the U.K. and France. Australia, New Zealand, and additional European countries are coming to the app in the next few weeks. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts and suggestions on the app ✌️

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5yr ago

Looks great! Well done on combining healthy food & going green. Wondering what are you planning for monetising the product: e.g. the app is free at the moment, are you going to start selling it at some point?

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5yr ago

Kuri

Maker

@sainnr Thanks Vladimir 🌱 Regarding monetization, we're working on a paid subscription that will offer additional, premium features like nutritional data, unlimited meal planning and so on. We're eager to see what our users would like to see coming to the app first, and right now it seems to be nutritional data. We'd also like in the near future to offer grocery delivery in the U.S. through Instacart/Amazon Fresh, so users can order everything they need to cook the meals they've chosen in the app. In any case, there will always be a free option ✌️

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5yr ago

@bptstmlgt sounds like a solid plan, good luck with that!

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5yr ago

@sainnr @bptstmlgt Nice point

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5yr ago

Conspire

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5yr ago

Kuri

Maker

@stewartjarod not working on it at the moment, but we definitely want to release it on Android too. At some point 😅

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5yr ago

Cool icon!) Try it just for yammy icon

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5yr ago

Kuri

Maker

@alvina_gerry haha, thanks Alvina! I had fun making a little gif for the occasion. Let us know how you like the app so far! 🙏

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5yr ago

@bptstmlgt I liked it!

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5yr ago

@bptstmlgt Thanks for this app

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5yr ago

Kuri

Maker

@mikeyeva Happy you like it Nastya 🙏 Thanks for your comment!

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5yr ago

@bptstmlgt Welcome

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5yr ago

Otis

This is awesome! Thanks for making an app that helps us in reducing our carbon footprint. 🙌🏼 Do you recommend local stores around the user or just what’s in seasonally location wise?

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5yr ago

Kuri

Maker

@suhyonya Thank you Susie! And congrats on your super successful launch of Otis! At the moment, we don't recommend local stores around the user, but that's on our roadmap. Ideally, we'd like to recommend places/organizations where you can buy fresh produce, maybe even directly from the farmers (like CSAs). I think that could be super helpful, and would definitely align with what the recipes Kuri recommends.

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5yr ago

Otis

@bptstmlgt Thank you! I was going to mention CSA 💙

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5yr ago

Froggodoggo

Congrats on the launch, Baptiste! We use Kuri from time to time if we run out of ideas on what to cook :-) I like that there's a wide range of recipes, so mostly I find something that I have the ingredients for already in my fridge. Also, it's nice that you recommend recipes with ingredients that are in season, which otherwise I'm too lazy to check.

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5yr ago

Kuri

Maker

@canolcer Thanks Can @canolcer! Dorena and you have been very supportive of the project already since the Beta, and I'm always super glad to have more vegan users 🌱

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5yr ago

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