Tag: diet
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You have probably heard that you should cut meat and dairy from your diet to reduce your carbon footprint. It is more obvious to identify what meat is in our diet and find ways to cut it out. But what do we mean by ‘dairy’ and what food and drinks is it in? What is…
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Do you need to buy expensive organic food to be eco-friendly? The answer is NO. This is a big myth that needs dispelling. First, it is not clear why organic food is ‘eco-friendly’. Second it is usually significantly more expensive than food that is not organic and does not last as long. No wonder people…
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Which desserts have a lower carbon footprint? What makes a big difference is individual ingredients in desserts. Dairy ingredients such as milk, butter and cream increase the carbon emissions of a dessert because they are cow-related products. Cows produce the largest number of emissions out of any animals and therefore any product that comes from…
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An Indian takeaway is one of the most popular takeaways to have in Britain. So, how can we reduce carbon emissions when ordering Indian food? Research by Mike Berners-Lee book ‘How Bad are Bananas?’ shows how the carbon footprint changes as you add different ingredients to an Indian dish. Indian curries and meat As with…
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Choosing a takeaway pizza Everyone loves a pizza and its one of the most popular takeaways around the world. But how can you choose a pizza and keep down your carbon footprint? Pizza and cheese One thing to think about when choosing a pizza is the amount of cheese that is on a pizza. Mike…
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Beer and wine are the most popular alcoholic drinks. In the UK, 68 litres of beer and 11.88 bottles of wine were drunk per person in 2022 in the UK. So how do carbon emissions compare between beer and wine? Research by Professor Bridle from Universit of York shows beer and wine as a drink…
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Which one has more carbon emissions? Tea and coffee are amongst the most popular drinks consumed across the world. Around 2 billion cups of coffee and 5 billion cups of tea are drunk everyday worldwide. If you are indifferent between drinking either of the drinks, choose tea over coffee because tea has lower carbon emissions.…
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If you love your caffeine fix and can’t live without coffee, how can you choose a coffee which lowers your carbon footprint? Coffee and milk Adding cow’s milk to coffee makes a big difference to a coffee’s carbon footprint because a lot of land is needed for cows to graze and to grow their food.…
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Carbon emission reducing snacks What snacks should you eat if you want to reduce your carbon footprint? Professor Bridle’s book ‘Food and climate change without the hot air’ analyses typical snacks we eat and suggest ways we can make small changes in our snacks to change our footprint. Chocolate Chocolate bars will vary in their…
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To adapt to a net zero world and halve our carbon footprint by 2030, we need to reduce our carbon emissions from food. About a quarter of carbon emissions come our diet. The average person creates 6kg of carbon emissions from what they eat daily. Ideally, we would halve this to 3kg by 2030 to…