# Carbon dioxide and Pepper & spices

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/carbon-dioxide-and-pepper-and-spices/

[Carbon dioxide](https://www.materialinsights.org/chemicals/carbon_dioxide/) (chemical) and [Pepper & spices](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/spices/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: processing input

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

Spice extracts are often made with pressurised carbon dioxide, a clean solvent. CO2 is a modest processing cost, and the data shows little link: monthly moves correlate at 0.03 and yearly moves at 0.21.

- **0.03** monthly change correlation
- **0.21** 12-month change correlation
- **0.50** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.