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I was curious what these numbers look like if people get their extra calories from carbs instead of animal products: - A 100g cooked serving of pasta has 131 c
by wrigby 1y ago
I was curious what these numbers look like if people get their extra calories from carbs instead of animal products:
- A 100g cooked serving of pasta has 131 calories [1]
- This random website claims that a 100g serving of pasta generates 0.58 lb CO2 equivalent emissions
- To get 90 calories we need ~69g of pasta
- This gives 0.4lb CO2e per mile when walking under pasta power
I'm not sure if the CO2 estimation for pasta is using a cooked weight or a dry weight, so I chose the worst-case scenario. If that CO2e number is applied to 100g of _dry_ pasta, the numbers get way better.
1: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/169728/nutrients https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/169728/nutrients
2: https://www.co2everything.com/co2e-of/pasta https://www.co2everything.com/co2e-of/pasta