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Plain Flour Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Plain Flour" has been searched for 1,703 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 3,403,013 miles!

This means that the average distance is 1,998 miles - that's 51% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 599 kg CO2 by plane, 547 kg CO2 by car, or 112 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of wheat/bread is estimated to generate roughly 1.57 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, Wheat/bread, 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
United Kingdom 558
Australia 139
Austria 88
United States 80
Hungary 79
China 62
Italy 60
Canada 59
Ireland 59
France 56
Türkiye 32
Germany 28
India 24
Czech Republic 22
Egypt 18
American Samoa 14
New Zealand 12
Argentina 11
Benin 8

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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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