Products
| Product | CO2e / kg | Studies |
|---|
Chicken breast
5.916
CO2e / kg
= 100 g of Chicken breast
You can consume
0.46
kg of Chicken breast to exhaust your daily CO2e food budget
Categories: Chicken | Poultry | Meat | Food
Subcategories: Chicken breast (boiled)
Studies
| Source | Notes | CO2e | Country origin | Country consumption | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RIVM Database Milieubelasting Voedingsmiddelen | Kipfilet | 10.873 |
Unknown | Netherlands | 5 |
| Den store klimadatabase | Chicken, breast, flesh and skin, Agriculture: 2.59, iLUC: 0.69, Food processing: -0.09, Packaging: 0.14, Transport: 0.11 | 3.44 |
Unknown | Unknown | 5 |
| Meat eater's guide to climate change + health | Table 10. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Broiler Chicken Production (at farmgate) Broiler Chicken Production System kg of CO2e per pound of edible chicken British Columbia 2.33 Table 11. Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Broiler Chicken Consumption (post-farmgate) Emission Source kg of CO2e per kg of consumed chicken Processing 1.66 Domestic Transport 0.32 Refrigeration (retail) 0.08 Home Cooking 1.17 Waste Disposal 0.07 Total 3.30 Per kg of consumed meat (includes moisture loss, waste loss and post-farmgate): 6.87 kg CO2e |
6.87 |
USA | USA | 6 |
| Systematic review of greenhouse gas emissions for different fresh food categories | Table 5 Median; #LCA studies: 29; #GWP values: 95; Mean: 4.12; Stdev: 1.72; Min: 1.06; Max: 9.98 Table 13. Chicken breast |
3.65 |
Unknown | Unknown | 8 |