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Cod Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Cod" has been searched for 3,129 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 6,330,872 miles!

This means that the average distance is 2,023 miles - that's 50% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 607 kg CO2 by plane, 554 kg CO2 by car, or 113 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of farmed fish is estimated to generate roughly 13.63 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, Farmed fish, 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
Norway 870
Iceland 585
United Kingdom 293
United States 127
China 117
Greenland 116
Russia 90
Sweden 89
Poland 77
Ireland 58
Australia 42
Portugal 42
Canada 41
France 34
Finland 25
New Zealand 23
Denmark 22
Brazil 13
Argentina 12

Related Items

Due to the food types being user entered, these might also be of use:

2 Cod Fillets, Avacoda, Avacodes, Avcodo, Breaded Cod Fillets, Cod Fillets, Cod Fish, Codfish, Crocodile, Crocodile Meat

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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