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India Food Miles

Food Tracked From India

Food has been tracked from India 246,687 times, covering 1,039,400,204 miles in total.

That works out to an average of 4,213 miles per item - 3% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, that produces roughly 1264 kg CO2 by plane, 1154 kg CO2 by car, or 236 kg CO2 by train.

According to our Food Miles tool the top 20 items tracked from India are listed below.

Food Tracked # of checks
Rice 24,021
Tea 23,830
Mango 20,711
Banana 14,154
Cucumber 5,358
Curry 4,451
Black Pepper 4,322
Coconut 4,241
Lemons 4,051
Sugar 3,811
Grapes 3,652
Oranges 3,633
Peppers 3,224
Baby Corn 2,542
Chicken 2,530
Basmati Rice 2,459
Cashew Nuts 2,245
Hamburger 2,166
Onions 2,078
Spices 2,013

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