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India Food Miles

Food Tracked From India

Food has been tracked from India 244,513 times, covering 1,029,739,291 miles in total.

That works out to an average of 4,211 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 1263 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 23,705
Tea 23,642
Mango 20,532
Banana 14,017
Cucumber 5,308
Curry 4,415
Black Pepper 4,300
Coconut 4,185
Lemons 4,022
Sugar 3,776
Grapes 3,647
Oranges 3,606
Peppers 3,202
Chicken 2,525
Baby Corn 2,513
Basmati Rice 2,392
Cashew Nuts 2,208
Hamburger 2,166
Onions 2,038
Spices 1,991

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