Sugar, sucrose, white
Candy and sugar products
Climate footprint in kg CO2e/kg
CO2e per kg
2,41
Agriculture
1,24
ILUC
0,10
Processing
0,41
Transport
0,45
Packaging
0,20
Retail
0,01
Klimadatabase ID
Ra00318
Detailed background data
It has been assumed that the food processing industry is located in Denmark. Production of sugar from sugar beet, average data from the EU as reported in Klenk et al. (2012). Source of heat is assumed natural gas. Water use is not reported and taken from Jungbluth et al. (2007). Retail is modelled assuming the following storage: Ambient. 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: Klenk et al. (2012); Jungbluth et al. (2007).
Documentation
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Nutritional content
Energy
1698,00 kj/100g
Protein
0,00 g/100g
Fat
0,00 g/100g
Carbon Hydrate
99,90 g/100g