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Where is your source? Last time I looked an almond took roughly the same amount of water to grow as a tomato on a per calorie basis.
by nightski 3y ago
Where is your source? Last time I looked an almond took roughly the same amount of water to grow as a tomato on a per calorie basis.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y agoA roma tomato is ~11 calories. Plants yield ~30 on average. They grow for ~75 days and need 1 gallon per 5 days = 1/2 gallon per ~11 calories. Almonds are closer to 1 gallon per ~6 calories - or almost 4 times worse. It's almost as if there's reason almonds are expensive and tomatoes and oranges and lemons and limes aren't.
- nightski 3y agoAlmonds really aren't expensive on a per calorie basis. They are far cheaper than tomatoes. For example at Walmart as of today I can buy 2,240 calories of blue diamond almonds for $6.98. The cheapest Roma tomato is $0.44 per item, which is roughly 35 calories. I'd need to buy 64 tomatoes in that case, which would be a whopping $28.16. Something in your math does not add up. From what I can gather a single tomato uses on average 3.3 gallons of water and a single almond is 1.1 gallons. That is 35 calories vs 7 calories. It comes out to 10 calories per gallon vs 6 calories per gallon which is not nearly as bad as your example. I'm not saying these numbers are 100% accurate, but I'm very skeptical it is 4 times as much water.