How do I calculate the carbon footprint of frozen parathas per kg?

Weigh the flour, fat and fillings per kg and use supplier figures. Add dough making, pressing, par cooking fuel, blast freezing and cold storage electricity and packing, then divide plant energy by kg packed. Freezing is often a large energy share.

Ingredients

• Wheat flour, ghee, oil or margarine.
• Potato, paneer or vegetable fillings.
• Interleaving film, pouches and cartons.

Process

• Dough mixing, sheeting and pressing.
• Par cooking on gas or electric griddles.
• Spiral or blast freezers and cold storage.

Per kg

Report per kg packed. If the buyer asks for frozen storage to the port, add it as a separate line.

Worked example: frozen paratha plant per kg (one month)

• Electricity: 80,000 kWh x 0.710 = 56,800 kg CO2
• LPG: 4,000 kg x 2.98 = 11,920 kg CO2
• Kg of parathas packed: 150,000
• Plant total: 68,720 / 150,000 = 0.458 kg CO2 per kg
• Add flour, fat, fillings and packaging for the full figure

Inputs are illustrative; use your own bills and production records.

What Senseible does here

Senseible reads the plant's electricity bills (CEA grid factor 0.710 kg CO2 per kWh, CO2 Baseline Database version 21.0) and fuel invoices (IPCC 2006 defaults) into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, the plant-level input to a per-unit figure. Bought-in materials go to the supplier evidence trail; product reports are self-declared drafts.

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Sources: GHG Protocol Product Standard, ISO 14067:2018, Carbon footprint of products (iso.org), IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy (fuel defaults), CEA CO2 Baseline Database, version 21.0

Last reviewed 2026-10-20.