Products

Product CO2e / kg Studies

Turkey

6.642
CO2e / kg
= 100 g of Turkey
You can consume
0.41
kg of Turkey to exhaust your daily CO2e food budget

Categories: Poultry | Meat | Food

Subcategories: Minced meat (turkey, 5-10% fat) | Turkey breast (cooked)

Studies

Source Notes CO2e Country origin Country consumption Weight
How low can we go? An assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from the UK food system and the scope reduction by 2050 Turkey meat
3.87
Europe United Kingdom 4
How low can we go? An assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from the UK food system and the scope reduction by 2050 Turkey meat
3.76
United Kingdom United Kingdom 0
Life Cycle Impacts of Proteinrich Foods for Superwijzer Brazil
8.85
Brazil Unknown 0
Life Cycle Impacts of Proteinrich Foods for Superwijzer
9.34
Netherlands Unknown 4
Den store klimadatabase Turkey, flesh only, Agriculture: 2.4, iLUC: 0.61, Food processing: -0.11, Packaging: 0.14, Transport: 0.14
3.18
Unknown Unknown 5
Klimatarier CO2 Rechner Putenfleisch
4.22
Unknown Unknown 5
Meat eater's guide to climate change + health Table 12. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Turkey Production (at farmgate)
Turkey Production System kg of CO2e per kg of edible turkey
Pennsylvania 3.41
Table 13. Greenhouse Gas Emission from Turkey Consumption (post-farmgate)
Emission Source kg of CO2e per kg of consumed turkey
Processing 1.83
Domestic Transport 0.42
Refrigeration (retail) 0.11
Home Cooking 1.44
Waste 0.21
Total 4.01
Per kg of consumed meat (includes moisture loss, waste loss and post-farmgate): 10.89 kg CO2e
10.89
USA USA 6
Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories Table 5 Median; #LCA studies: 3; #GWP values: 7; Mean: 6.04; Stdev: 0.66; Min: 3.34; Max: 8.49
7.17
Unknown Unknown 8

Recipes

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Recipes