Table 1.
Amount of food waste and by-products (wet mass) (Caldeira et al., 2019), and N concentration (Carmona-Garcia et al., 2017; Britz and Witzke, 2014; USDA, 2018) per food product group and stage of the food chain.
| Meat | Fish | Dairy | Eggs | Cereals | Fruit | Vegetables | Potatoes | Sugarbeets | Oilcrops | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food waste (Mt wet y−1) | Processing | 2.9 | 3.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 6.0 | 2.6 | 2.1 | 0.0 | 10.0 |
| Distribution | 1.7 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.1 | |
| Consumption | 9.0 | 1.2 | 5.2 | 1.3 | 10.1 | 10.3 | 14.5 | 5.9 | 1.6 | 1.7 | |
| - of which in households | 7.3 | 0.7 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 8.0 | 8.8 | 12.2 | 4.9 | 1.3 | 1.4 | |
| - of which in food services | 1.7 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
| By-products (Mt wet y−1) | Processing | 26.3 | 1.5 | 10.0 | 0.6 | 25.6 | 7.3 | 2.6 | 0.0 | 8.5 | 14.8 |
| N concentration (gN kg−1 wet) | Processing | 36.7 | 33.1 | 5.6 | 20.9 | 27.4 | 2.0 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 9.1 | 52.2 |
| Distribution | 32.7 | 33.1 | 5.5 | 19.2 | 10.2 | 1.2 | 3.6 | 5.0 | 2.2 | 34.1 | |
| Consumption | 32.7 | 33.1 | 6.3 | 20.9 | 10.2 | 1.7 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 1.6 | 3.6 |