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India Food Miles

Food Tracked From India

Food has been tracked from India 245,892 times, covering 1,035,743,437 miles in total.

That works out to an average of 4,212 miles per item - 3% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, that produces roughly 1264 kg CO2 by plane, 1154 kg CO2 by car, or 236 kg CO2 by train.

According to our Food Miles tool the top 20 items tracked from India are listed below.

Food Tracked # of checks
Rice 23,922
Tea 23,768
Mango 20,633
Banana 14,131
Cucumber 5,353
Curry 4,431
Black Pepper 4,306
Coconut 4,203
Lemons 4,040
Sugar 3,806
Grapes 3,650
Oranges 3,625
Peppers 3,215
Chicken 2,529
Baby Corn 2,526
Basmati Rice 2,451
Cashew Nuts 2,224
Hamburger 2,166
Onions 2,052
Spices 2,008

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