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. 2014 Jun 11;125(2):179–192. doi: 10.1007/s10584-014-1169-1

Table 1.

Adjustment factors for cheese, fruit juices, dried fruit and soya milk

Food Related GHG emissions commodity kgCO2e per 100 g of commodity Adjustment factor kgCO2e per 100 g of food Rationale
Cheese Milk 0.184 10.1 1.858 10.1 L of milk required for 1 kg semi-hard cheese (Berlin 2002)
Orange juice Oranges 0.006 3.2 0.019 3.22 kg of oranges required for 1 kg of juice (combining natural and concentrated) (Beccali et al. 2009)
Apple juice Apples 0.072 1.4 0.099 Copella website states ‘3lbs of apples are packed into every litre of apple juice’ (Copella. Copella fruit juices. http://www.copellafruitjuices.co.uk/our-juices/juices Accessed July 2013)
Soya milk Soy beans 0.201 0.1 0.025 Recipe website suggests 160 g soy beans combined with 1.5-2 L of water (Spiciefoodie.com. Homemade soy milk. http://www.spiciefoodie.com/2013/01/14/homemade-soy-milk-or-how-to-make-soy-milk/Accessed September 2013)
Raisins Grapes 0.083 3.2 0.264 Comparison of water content in grapes and raisins in UK food composition tables (Roe et al. 2002)

kgCO2e, kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalents (carbon dioxide has weighting 1, methane has weighting 25, nitrous oxide has weighting 298)