Is avocado worse for the climate than beef?
Besvaret 1. november 2026
No. Per kilo, avocado is far below Danish beef. In CONCITO's Danish climate database, raw avocado comes to 1.22 kg CO2e per kg, about a fifth of it from transport. CONCITO is a green think tank. Minced beef comes to 45.47 kg with 15-20 percent fat and 50.61 kg with 5-10 percent fat. That makes minced beef roughly 37 to 41 times heavier per kilo. Beef figures depend a lot on method: across calculations they range from under 20 to well over 50 kg per kg. A review from Aarhus University puts beef from dairy breeds at 10-12 kg and from beef cattle at 26-37 kg. Even the lowest figure is about 8 times avocado's. Per kilo flatters avocado, though: it has 1.9 grams of protein per 100 grams against 17.8 for minced beef. Per 100 grams of protein that gives about 6.4 kg for avocado and 25.5 kg for minced beef, so beef is still about four times heavier.
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- CONCITO's klimadatabase med tal for ca. 540 fødevarer, version 1.2, 2025Ét studie · Datasæt · ca. 540 fødevarerDen Store Klimadatabase, version 1.2: data for det danske marked
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