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Food Print
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What is a Food Carbon Footprint?
Every meal has a story before it reaches our plate and every ingredient leaves a footprint. Food production creates greenhouse gases, usually expressed as CO₂e. The numbers are estimates, but they can help us discover something interesting:
Which ingredients make the biggest difference?
Food is about more than CO₂
Carbon emissions are only one part of the story. At Basata, we also think about where food comes from, how far it travels, seasonality, how it is produced, local livelihoods and the ecosystems around us.
Good food · Healthy reefs · Brighter tomorrows
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