Lentils: carbon footprint

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🫘Carbon footprintLentils

0.58kg CO₂e / kg

1 kg

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Lentils comes in at about 0.58 kg CO₂e / kg (1 kg).

Of the 14 kitchen foods Carbonle tracks, Lentils sits at #3 from the lightest — one of the lightest.

Protein for almost nothing. A kilo of lentils is a fraction of nearly everything else.

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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.