Water & Carbon Footprint Scanner

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Ingredient read Matched to % Water (L) CO₂e (kg) delete

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kg CO₂e

Method & data

How it is calculated

The footprint covers the farming of the ingredients. Processing, transport and packaging are not part of the calculation.

Each ingredient gets a share of the net weight. Percentages printed on the label are taken as they are. For the other ingredients, the order of the list is the guide, since a label goes from the heaviest to the lightest. The footprint is the sum of the masses multiplied by the per-kilogram factors in the table below.

The ± margin covers the gap between the smallest and the largest shares compatible with the label. An ingredient that could not be identified enters it for the whole range of the database.

Conversion factors per kilogram
Ingredient Water (L/kg) Carbon (kg CO₂e/kg)
Basics
Salt 0 0.1
Spices & herbs 5,000 2
Water 0 0
Yeast 0 0.5
Meat & fish
Beef 15,400 60
Chicken 4,300 6
Farmed fish 2,500 5
Lamb 10,400 24
Pork 6,000 7
Meat (generic) 6,000 7
Animal products
Butter 5,550 12
Cheese 3,200 21
Cream 2,200 6
Egg 3,300 4.5
Milk 1,000 3
Milk powder 4,700 10
Animal product (generic) 3,250 8
Cereals & flours
Maize 1,200 1.2
Oats 1,800 2.5
Rice 2,500 4
Wheat flour 1,850 1.4
Cereal (generic) 1,825 2
Sugars & syrups
Glucose / glucose-fructose syrup 1,500 3
Honey 2,000 2
Sugar 1,500 3
Sweetener (generic) 1,500 3
Tropical crops
Chocolate 17,200 19
Cocoa 16,000 19
Coffee 15,900 17
Tropical crop (generic) 16,000 19
Oils
Olive oil 14,400 6
Palm oil 5,000 8
Rapeseed oil 4,300 3.8
Sunflower oil 6,800 3.5
Oil (generic) 5,900 4.9
Vegetables
Carrot 200 0.4
Onion 280 0.5
Potato 290 0.5
Tomato 214 1.4
Tomato purée 850 4
Vegetable (generic) 280 0.5
Fruit
Apple 820 0.4
Banana 790 0.9
Orange 560 0.4
Raisins 2,400 3
Fruit (generic) 805 0.7
Pulses
Chickpeas 4,200 0.8
Lentils 5,900 0.9
Soy 2,150 2
Pulse (generic) 4,200 0.9
Nuts
Almond 16,000 2.3
Hazelnut 10,500 1.3
Peanut 2,800 2.5
Nut (generic) 10,500 2.3