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Italy Food Miles

Food Tracked From Italy

Food has been tracked from Italy 393,332 times, covering 770,146,404 miles in total.

That works out to an average of 1,958 miles per item - 52% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, that produces roughly 587 kg CO2 by plane, 536 kg CO2 by car, or 110 kg CO2 by train.

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

Food Tracked # of checks
Pasta 52,204
Tomatoes 19,035
Pizza 18,090
Olives 17,566
Spaghetti 12,089
OLIVE OIL 10,473
Chopped Tomatoes 9,188
Kiwi 8,239
Grapes 8,067
Apple 6,543
Cheese 6,246
Mozzarella 5,902
Broccoli 4,722
Mozzarella Cheese 4,234
Tomato Puree 3,595
Tinned Tomatoes 3,274
Lemons 2,937
Nutella 2,771
Pesto 2,293
Parmesan Cheese 2,264

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