Chicken, minced
Climate footprint in kg CO2e/kg
Detailed background data
It has been assumed that the food processing industry is located in Denmark. Processing of chicken carcass into minced chicken, based on data from the Australian Chicken Meat Federation (2020). 756 g chicken carcas yields 409 g lean meat plus 85 g skin. The rest is assumed bones. It is assumed that 100% of the lean meat is ground and 100% recovered. The inputs are modelled as chicken cuts in proportion to their contribution to the animal weight. No data on energy etc. Retail is modelled assuming the following storage: Cooled. See more details as well as literature references in the methodoly report on: www.denstoreklimadatabase.dk.
Data on inputs and outputs of the food processing industry is modelled using: Australian Chicken Meat Federation (2020) Common Cuts of Raw Chicken. https://www.chicken.org.au/chicken-cuts/.