Greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of food product
Greenhouse gas emissions are measured in kilograms of carbon dioxide-equivalents. This means non-CO₂ gases are weighted by the amount of warming theycause over a 100-year timescale.
Greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram kgCO₂eq per kilogram
Food | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Apples | 0.43 kg |
| Bananas | 0.86 kg |
| Barley | 1.18 kg |
| Beef (beef herd) | 99.48 kg |
| Beef (dairy herd) | 33.30 kg |
| Beet Sugar | 1.81 kg |
| Berries & Grapes | 1.53 kg |
| Brassicas | 0.51 kg |
| Cane Sugar | 3.20 kg |
| Cassava | 1.32 kg |
| Cheese | 23.88 kg |
| Citrus Fruit | 0.39 kg |
| Coffee | 28.53 kg |
| Dark Chocolate | 46.65 kg |
| Eggs | 4.67 kg |
| Fish (farmed) | 13.63 kg |
| Groundnuts | 3.23 kg |
| Lamb & Mutton | 39.72 kg |
| Maize | 1.70 kg |
| Milk | 3.15 kg |
| Nuts | 0.43 kg |
| Oatmeal | 2.48 kg |
| Onions & Leeks | 0.50 kg |
| Other Fruit | 1.05 kg |
| Other Pulses | 1.79 kg |
| Other Vegetables | 0.53 kg |
| Peas | 0.98 kg |
| Pig Meat | 12.31 kg |
| Potatoes | 0.46 kg |
| Poultry Meat | 9.87 kg |
| Prawns (farmed) | 26.87 kg |
| Rice | 4.45 kg |
| Root Vegetables | 0.43 kg |
| Soy milk | 0.98 kg |
| Tofu | 3.16 kg |
| Tomatoes | 2.09 kg |
| Wheat & Rye | 1.57 kg |
| Wine | 1.79 kg |
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