A cucumber: carbon footprint

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🥒Carbon footprintA cucumber

0.51kg CO₂e / kg

1 kg

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A cucumber comes in at about 0.51 kg CO₂e / kg (1 kg).

Of the 14 kitchen foods Carbonle tracks, A cucumber sits at #2 from the lightest — one of the lightest.

In season it's about as light as food gets: mostly water and a short trip.

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Figures from ADEME AGRIBALYSE 3.2 (2025), via impactco2.fr; Licence Ouverte 2.0, licensed Licence Ouverte 2.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.