Chili con carne, ready meals

Ready meals

Climate footprint in kg CO2e/kg

CO2e per kg
25,05
Agriculture
19,51
ILUC
4,48
Processing
-0,95
Transport
0,83
Packaging
1,18
Retail
0,00
Klimadatabase ID
Ra00454

Detailed background data

It has been assumed that the food processing industry is located in Denmark. Ingredients from the Agribalyse data set for chili con carne (ADEME 2020u), adding the waste for peeling, etc., of tomato and onion. The mass balance assumes some mass in the inputs goes out as evaporated water in cooking. Manufacturing energy is taken as in production of a lamb shank ready meal in DEFRA (2009). 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: ADEME (2020u); DEFRA (2009).

Documentation
Ra00454