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Italy Food Miles

Food Tracked From Italy

Food has been tracked from Italy 396,623 times, covering 777,562,232 miles in total.

That works out to an average of 1,960 miles per item - 52% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, that produces roughly 588 kg CO2 by plane, 537 kg CO2 by car, or 110 kg CO2 by train.

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

Food Tracked # of checks
Pasta 52,699
Tomatoes 19,272
Pizza 18,274
Olives 17,695
Spaghetti 12,167
Olive Oil 10,511
Chopped Tomatoes 9,341
Kiwi 8,298
Grapes 8,133
Apple 6,569
Cheese 6,293
Mozzarella 5,940
Broccoli 4,765
Mozzarella Cheese 4,262
Tomato Puree 3,606
Tinned Tomatoes 3,308
Lemons 2,971
Nutella 2,801
Parmesan Cheese 2,318
Pesto 2,317

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