Other fruit vs Tofu: carbon footprint
Other fruit or Tofu? Here's what each one costs the climate, measured per kilo over its whole life.
Other fruit runs about 1.05 kg CO₂e a kilo. Tofu runs 3.16.
Tofu is the heavier choice, about 3.0× Other fruit.
Swap Tofu for Other fruit and you cut about 2.11 kg a kilo, near 67% off.
Per kilo, that gap is a 12 km drive in a diesel car.
Other fruit: Light. Fruit needs little land or feed, and most of its footprint is the farm and the truck.
Tofu: Tofu and soy milk hand you protein at a fraction of beef's footprint. The swap that actually moves the needle.
Per-kilo numbers skip portion size and how the food was farmed, so take them as the shape of things, not the last word.
More match-ups
Figures from OWID / Poore & Nemecek 2018, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.