French fries: carbon footprint

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🍟Carbon footprintFrench fries

1.46kg CO₂e / kg

1 kg

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French fries comes in at about 1.46 kg CO₂e / kg (1 kg).

Of the 14 kitchen foods Carbonle tracks, French fries sits at #5 from the lightest — mid-pack.

The same potato, fried. Cooking in oil roughly triples a spud's footprint.

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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.