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Apple 🍎🍏 Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Apple 🍎🍏" has been searched for 7 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 24,678 miles!

This means that the average distance is 3,525 miles - that's 14% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1058 kg CO2 by plane, 966 kg CO2 by car, or 197 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of apples is estimated to generate roughly 0.43 kg CO2e in total (land use, farming, processing and packaging combined) - for most foods, that's far more than the transport emissions above. See what the research says about why what you eat usually matters more than how far it travelled. (Estimate for the closest matching category, Apples, not this exact product - source: Our World in Data, based on Poore & Nemecek 2018.)

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Barbados 1
Korea, North 1
Jamaica 1
United Kingdom 1
India 1

Wondering how far this really gets you, and what it means for your own choices? See what the current research says about food miles, or find out whether food miles still matter in 2026.

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