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Cocoa Beans Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Cocoa Beans" has been searched for 17,353 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 76,565,755 miles!

This means that the average distance is 4,412 miles - that's 8% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1324 kg CO2 by plane, 1209 kg CO2 by car, or 247 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of dark chocolate is estimated to generate roughly 46.65 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, Dark chocolate, 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
Ghana 5,065
Brazil 2,227
Nigeria 1,068
Cote d'Ivoire 781
Central African Republic 623
South Africa 621
Mexico 506
Australia 435
Cameroon 407
Ecuador 294
Indonesia 292
Peru 250
United Kingdom 243
Colombia 229
Kenya 208
Costa Rica 159
American Samoa 154
United States 136
India 117

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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