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Lays Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Lays" has been searched for 709 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 3,634,394 miles!

This means that the average distance is 5,126 miles - that's 26% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1538 kg CO2 by plane, 1405 kg CO2 by car, or 287 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
United States 282
American Samoa 49
India 32
South Africa 31
Saudi Arabia 25
United Kingdom 21
Canada 18
Thailand 15
China 12
Australia 8
Belarus 7
Mexico 7
Pakistan 6
Indonesia 6
Germany 5
Poland 5
Malaysia 5
Argentina 5
Vietnam 5

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