A couple of questions

Why is chocolate so water intensive?

The water consumption

It takes 27,000 liters of water to produce one kilo of cocoa beans. The cocoa bean needs the most water for it's growth of all plants. … Extrapolated to the chocolate production in Switzerland, this means that over 2.5 trillion liters of water are used only for chocolate production.Jan 31, 2020

How water intensive is chocolate?

One chocolate bar You need about 450 gallons of water to make a single chocolate bar. The vast majority of the water is used to grow the cocoa plants needed to create chocolate.

Does chocolate use a lot of water?

Crisps & Chocolate: Snacking on water How about the snacks we eat? Highly processed foods such as potato crisps and chocolate tend to consume a lot of water. The total water footprint of potato crisps is around 925 litres of water per kg. As expected, growing the potato takes the biggest portion of water.

How many Litres of water does it take to make chocolate?

It takes 21 litres of water to produce a small chocolate bar. How water-wise is your diet? Our diets can have a big environmental impact.

How much water goes into a bar of chocolate?

It Takes 317 Gallons of Water to Produce a Bar of Chocolate.

Do you need water to make chocolate?

Chocolate tops the list with 17,196 litres of water need to produce 1kg of the product. Beef, sheep and pork meat all require high volumes of water for production also. … Compared to the production of meat, vegetable foodstuffs require considerably less water — 1kg of potatoes for example uses 287 litres of water.

What takes most water to make?

As Table 1 indicates, meat (in this case, pork and beef) requires the highest amount of water to produce.

What percentage of water is in chocolate?

What happens when water gets into the chocolate? In it's solid form, pure chocolate is a relatively stable system virtually free of water (0.5-1.5% by weight).