Each food causes CO₂ emissions. Also we are able to calculate the percentage of how much the food product emissions are better compared to the current average food consumption. This is done by calculating the total CO₂ emissions of a huge sample of foods and dividing those by Daily Food Unit - DFU [EN/DE]. This Average food consumption used for comparisons [EN/DE] is compiled with the data we have collected over the last years.
Yet, if we have the Improvement percentage calculation [EN/DE], this alone does not provide enough information about how much we actually save.
Hence we multiply the percentage with the total amount of the food, as follows:
In this example, consuming this food would reduce 1421 g CO₂eq. For the best foods, those that saved the most CO₂, we display a ranking in our pdf report.
The result shows us how much CO₂ we actually save by consuming the food by its specified amount.