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Banana 🍌 Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Banana 🍌" has been searched for 90 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 512,372 miles!

This means that the average distance is 5,693 miles - that's 40% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1708 kg CO2 by plane, 1560 kg CO2 by car, or 319 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of bananas is estimated to generate roughly 0.86 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, Bananas, 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
Ecuador 23
Costa Rica 11
Brazil 9
Colombia 7
Cameroon 4
Fiji 3
Chile 3
Philippines 2
Australia 2
China 2
Ghana 2
Finland 1
Malaysia 1
South Africa 1
Aruba 1
Belize 1
Vietnam 1
Greece 1
Cambodia 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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