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Climate tip week 3
How much summer is in your tomato?
It's cold and there's ice on the streets and the days are short, but the tomatoes still look just as red as they did in the middle of summer. How do they do that? You guessed it – hothouses ensure that tomatoes can brave the cold and we can enjoy our tomato salad even during the winter months. However this achievement has its dark side. Swiss hothouses are generally heated and therefore require a disproportionate amount of energy. A Swiss field tomato causes almost 100 times (!) less CO2 emissions than a hothouse tomato.
A little less, but nevertheless still almost 50 times as many CO2 emissions compared to Swiss field tomatoes are caused by tomatoes from unheated hothouses in Spain (including transport).
- 1 kg field tomatoes: 0.1 kg CO2eq1 kg tomatoes, heated hothouse: 9.3 kg CO2eq1 kg tomatoes, unheated hothouse (incl. transport): 4.6 kg CO2eq
Our climate tip:
Avoid fruit or vegetables grown in hothouses. Look at the small print on the label.