The carbon cost of food

Kilograms of CO₂e per kilo · lightest to heaviest

🍊Citrus fruit

0.39

🍎Apples

0.43

🥔Potatoes

0.46

🍌Bananas

0.86

🍅Tomatoes

2.09

🥛Milk

3.15

🥡Tofu

3.16

🍚Rice

4.45

🥚Eggs

4.67

🫒Olive oil

5.42

🍗Chicken

9.87

🥓Pork

12.31

🐟Farmed fish

13.63

🧀Cheese

23.88

☕Coffee

28.53

🐑Lamb

39.72

🍫Dark chocolate

46.65

🥩Beef

231× an apple

99.48

Source: Our World in Data

From citrus to beef, here is the carbon footprint of everyday foods, lightest to heaviest, in kilograms of CO₂e per kilo. The gap is the story: a kilo of beef carries over two hundred times the footprint of a kilo of apples.

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