Pizza with tuna, frozen, ready meals

Ready meals

Climate footprint in kg CO2e/kg

CO2e per kg
2,53
Agriculture
0,39
ILUC
0,25
Processing
1,56
Transport
0,10
Packaging
0,21
Retail
0,02
Klimadatabase ID
Ra00254

Detailed background data

It has been assumed that the food processing industry is located in Denmark. Ingredients from a commercial product in Open Food Facts (2020l). Manufacturing from DEFRA (2009). Ingredients multiplied by 1.03 to account for wastage in manufacturing (DEFRA 2009). Energy consumption from freezing, estimated as 0.02 kWh/kg in the LCA Food DK database (Nielsen et al. 2003) for frozen bread vs. Fresh bread. Retail is modelled assuming the following storage: Frozen. 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: Open Food Facts (2020l); Nielsen et al. (2003).

Documentation
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