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Croissant

One butter croissant as made — 123 g of dough — with its 3 g of packaging

This page shows what the product is made of and where each figure comes from. It does not show a death toll. The toll is calculated from this list of materials, and will be published only once it has a range and the model has passed its test on past years.

The origin document's croissant (plan/06 §4), exactly: 65 g of flour, 30 g of butter, 5 g of sugar, 1 g of salt, 2 g of yeast and 20 g of water, 0.9 MJ of process energy, 3 g of packaging, 0.4 tonne-kilometres of transport and €0.35 of retail and service. A baker's formula uses more butter and liquid for the same flour, so this croissant is a lean one, and every line is INDICATIVE. The energy's carrier and the packaging's material are not stated by the source, so they reach no supply chain yet.

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What it is made of

Each line is one part of one butter croissant as made — 123 g of dough — with its 3 g of packaging: how much of it goes in, how much had to be produced to get that much (some is wasted along the way), and where the figure comes from.

What it is made of
Component Quantity Source
Wheat flour
ingredient
65.0 g HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
Butter
ingredient
30.0 g HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
Refined sugar
ingredient
5.00 g HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
Salt
ingredient
1.00 g HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
Registered as the material `salt` on 2026-09-18 from USGS production.
Baker's yeast
ingredient
2.00 g HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
Fresh water
ingredient
20.0 mL HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
the origin document gives 20 g; a gram of water is a millilitre
Process energy (carrier not stated)
energy
0.900 MJ HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
Packaging (material not stated)
packaging
3.00 g HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
Transportation and storage (industry)
transport
0.400 t·km HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
mode not stated, so the transport section as a whole
Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles (industry)
service
0.350 € HumanToll plan/06 §4, the origin document's croissant, reproduced line for line; proporti… · indicative
'retail + service' — retail trade; the price year is the product's, when it has one

Down to raw materials

The whole chain worked out — everything one butter croissant as made — 123 g of dough — with its 3 g of packaging needs, through every product in between, with all the waste along the way included.

Down to raw materials
Input Per item
Fresh water 20.0 mL
Milk 652 g
Salt 1.00 g
Sugar 36.2 g
Wheat 84.4 g
Baker's yeast (not in the register) 2.00 g
Packaging (material not stated) (not in the register) 3.00 g
Process energy (carrier not stated) (not in the register) 0.900 MJ
Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles (industry) 0.350 €
Transportation and storage (industry) 0.400 t·km

An input marked “not in the register” is counted by weight but is not yet linked to any supply chain. Services such as transport appear as the euros, or tonnes carried a kilometre, that the list of materials gives them.

How much of it is known in detail

100% of this product’s weight is listed in detail in its own list of materials.

Its whole chain uses 779 g of materials, waste included. 99% of that is raw materials the model knows — the part it can trace harm to — 1% is inputs not yet on the list, and 0% is an openly stated remainder.

In the table of what industries buy from each other it belongs to “Manufacture of food products; beverages and tobacco products” (FIGARO industry C10-12).

In the table of what industries buy from each other it belongs to “Manufacture of food products; beverages and tobacco products” (FIGARO industry C10T12).

The number this page does not show

The harm in this chain is not shown.

The model passes the harm counted where each raw material is produced on to the products that use it. That number is a count of people from a recorded calculation, with no range yet, and nothing of that kind is published before the model passes its test on past years. What this page can show without it is how the product is built: what it is made of, and where each piece of that knowledge comes from.

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