Deliciously Ella sustainability score: 26/100
Better than 4% of Food & Beverage (non-meat)
Below expectations starts at 31. The highest score on SINK is 71.
Limited independent evidence: only two independent sources cover this company. The score may change as more evidence appears.
Deliciously Ella is a UK plant-based snack brand founded in 2012, known for oat bars, energy balls, and granola products. Acquired by Swiss food group Hero AG in September 2024, the company operates as a London-based consumer brand with outsourced manufacturing.
More about Deliciously Ella
It competes in the plant-based convenience food sector.
Founded 2012Head office London, GBStaff ~50–100Revenue ~£25MWebsite ↗
Deliciously Ella publishes a sustainability page but discloses no quantified emissions data, targets, or formal reporting. The brand lacks verified carbon footprint figures, energy strategy, and climate commitments. Its main strength is a plant-based product portfolio and frank packaging acknowledgment; its critical weakness is near-total absence of measurable accountability.
Deliciously Ella scores 26/100 (Significant gaps) on SINK's independent climate assessment, scored from public data only. Scores are free. Nobody can pay to change a score, speed it up or hide it. Last verified May 2026.
That places Deliciously Ella joint 847th of 1,023 companies scored, and 49th of 51 in Food & Beverage (non-meat).
Limited evidence. This score rests on 6 sources, 67% of them published by the company itself. Every source cited here passed the same quality checks as any other score: all live, none from data aggregators. There is simply less of it.
What is Deliciously Ella doing well, and where does it fall short?
Strongest on Controversies & Red Flags and Resource Use & Waste (8/10, 4/10). Weakest on Carbon Footprint: Operations and Emissions Trajectory (2/10, 2/10).
Where Deliciously Ella lost points
For each question that lost points, the evidence our public rubric looks for that we didn't find.
What would raise this score
- Emissions from its own operationsPublish emissions figures for its own operations, even an estimate from energy bills.
- Whether its emissions are fallingShow its emissions are falling, even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy isMove to a renewable energy tariff or make a major efficiency investment.
Every question that lost points
- Emissions from its own operations2/10No emissions figures for its own operations, not even an estimate from energy bills.
- Emissions from its supply chain3/10No assessment of where its supply-chain emissions come from.
- Whether its emissions are falling2/10No evidence its emissions are falling, not even from energy bills or mileage.
- How clean its energy is2/10No renewable energy tariff or major efficiency investment shown.
- Its effect on nature3/10No assessment of its effect on nature, and no basic environmental policy.
- How it uses materials and handles waste4/10No measurable waste or recycling targets reported publicly.
- Its effect on water3/10No monitoring of water use, or no measures to reduce it.
- Its climate targets2/10No specific targets with dates.
- How openly it reports3/10No published sustainability data, or no one named as responsible for it.
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How is Deliciously Ella's SINK score calculated?
Same ten questions for every company. No private weighting.
SINK = (0.3 × Base + 0.7 × Performance) × ScaleHas Deliciously Ella's score changed?
Deliciously Ella's score has moved from 37 to 26 across 4 recorded reviews, down 11 points.
- 37 → 26-117 November 2026
The small-company exception no longer applies: its parent group, Hero, files group accounts showing CHF 1,220.7m revenue and 4,151 staff. With no published emissions figure, the 0.70x size step now applies.
- 37 → 377 November 2026
Limited-evidence banner: 2 independent parties once company-published sources are not counted (owner ruling 2026-11-07). Score unchanged.
- 37 → 377 November 2026
Correction, 7 November 2026: removed an unsourced emissions figure. Score unchanged.
- Scored 3729 October 2026
Correction: score 38 → 37; performance 33 was not the sum of its ten published marks (32) (arithmetic error, corrected 29 October 2026).
What evidence is Deliciously Ella's score based on?
6 sources used in this assessment. All publicly available. Each row shows which of the ten questions it informed.
67% of them were published by Deliciously Ella itself; the rest come from independent sources.
This company's public sustainability disclosure is limited. This score is based on the 6 verified sources cited below, rather than padded to a standard count.
Limited data coverage. This assessment is based on 6 sources, 67% of which are self-reported by the company. Scores may change as independent evidence becomes available.
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How does Deliciously Ella compare with other food & beverage (non-meat) companies?
Where Deliciously Ella sits among food & beverage (non-meat) peers.
Among the 51 major food & beverage (non-meat) brands we've scored, Deliciously Ella sits 49th of 51.
Who scores higher in Food & Beverage (non-meat)?
The 3 companies in the sector scoring nearest above Deliciously Ella.
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