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Icecream Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Icecream" has been searched for 810 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 2,849,317 miles!

This means that the average distance is 3,518 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 1055 kg CO2 by plane, 964 kg CO2 by car, or 197 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
China 114
Italy 113
United States 65
United Kingdom 41
Australia 37
Belgium 29
France 28
Ireland 22
Iceland 18
Afghanistan 17
New Zealand 15
Canada 13
Netherlands 13
Germany 10
American Samoa 9
Japan 9
Brazil 9
Spain 9
Denmark 9

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