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Cheese vs Tofu

Climate comparison of Cheese and Tofu.

Example result

Tofu instead of Cheese: 82% less Greenhouse gases (per 100 g protein)

Cheese10.8 kg CO₂e
Tofu1.98 kg CO₂e

Fixed example for search engines. Values from curated LCA data.

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Result

Tofu instead of Cheese: 82% less Greenhouse gases (per 100 g protein)

Cheese10.8 kg CO₂e
Tofu1.98 kg CO₂e

Lower by 8.84 kg CO₂e

About 74 (km by average car) (Equivalence: European Environment Agency: average CO2 emissions from new passenger cars about 120 g/km (fleet order of magnitude used for illustration).. As of September 22, 2026.)

Ranking

Foods sorted by the selected metric and basis.

  1. Nuts0.26 kg CO₂e
  2. Peas0.44 kg CO₂e
  3. Pulses (lentils and similar)0.84 kg CO₂e
  4. Groundnuts1.23 kg CO₂e
  5. Wheat and rye1.29 kg CO₂e
  6. Maize1.79 kg CO₂e
  7. Oatmeal1.91 kg CO₂e
  8. Tofu1.98 kg CO₂e
  9. Potatoes2.71 kg CO₂e
  10. Onions and leeks3.85 kg CO₂e
  11. Eggs4.21 kg CO₂e
  12. Root vegetables4.3 kg CO₂e
  13. Brassicas4.64 kg CO₂e
  14. Poultry meat5.7 kg CO₂e
  15. Fish (farmed)5.98 kg CO₂e
  16. Rice6.27 kg CO₂e
  17. Citrus fruit6.5 kg CO₂e
  18. Pig meat7.61 kg CO₂e
  19. Cow milk9.5 kg CO₂e
  20. Bananas9.56 kg CO₂e
  21. Cheese10.8 kg CO₂e
  22. Apples14.3 kg CO₂e
  23. Beef (dairy herd)16.9 kg CO₂e
  24. Prawns (farmed)18.2 kg CO₂e
  25. Tomatoes19 kg CO₂e
  26. Lamb and mutton19.9 kg CO₂e
  27. Beef (beef herd)49.9 kg CO₂e

Data: Poore and Nemecek (2018), processed by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0. As of September 21, 2026. About the data · CC BY 4.0

Questions

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