Products

Product CO2e / kg Studies

Parmesan cheese

7.407
CO2e / kg
= 100 g of Parmesan cheese
You can consume
0.36
kg of Parmesan cheese to exhaust your daily CO2e food budget

Categories: Cheese | Dairy | Food

Studies

Source Notes CO2e Country origin Country consumption Weight
Carbon Footprint Analysis: Parmigiano Reggiano DOP Made by Caseificio Caramasche Soc. Coop. Page 25:
Il carbon footprint di un chilo di formaggio Parmigiano Reggiano DOP prodotto da Caseificio Caramasche Soc. Coop. risulta essere pari a 9,0967 kgCO2e. Le emissioni di gas serra suddivise per le diverse fasi del ciclo di vita (come richiesto da PCR utilizzato) sono presentate in Figura 10.
On page 30, they show that the confidence interval is somewhere between 4 and 22 kg CO2e
9.097
Italy Italy 3
Den store klimadatabase Cheese, hard, Parmesan, 32 % fidm., Agriculture: 4.46, iLUC: 0.46, Food processing: 2.33, Packaging: 0.35, Transport: 0.12
7.72
Unknown Unknown 5
Ökologische Fußabdrücke von Lebensmitteln und Gerichten in Deutschland (IFEU) Käse, Hartkäse, wie Parmesan
6.3
Unknown Germany 6

Recipes

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Recipes