Sunflower oil vs Tofu: carbon footprint
Sunflower oil3.6kg CO₂e / kg
vs
Tofu3.16kg CO₂e / kg
Sunflower oil or Tofu? Here's what each one costs the climate, measured per kilo over its whole life.
Sunflower oil runs about 3.6 kg CO₂e a kilo. Tofu runs 3.16.
It's close. Sunflower oil and Tofu land in roughly the same place.
Sunflower oil: Pressing a whole crop into one bottle concentrates the footprint, so oils punch above their volume.
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.
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Figures from OWID / Poore & Nemecek 2018, licensed CC-BY 4.0.
How we get these numbers: Methodology.