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Onions Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Onions" has been searched for 47,021 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 138,393,971 miles!

This means that the average distance is 2,943 miles - that's 28% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 883 kg CO2 by plane, 806 kg CO2 by car, or 165 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Spain 4,622
United Kingdom 4,256
Netherlands 3,799
China 3,543
Iran 2,987
France 2,558
United States 2,466
Egypt 2,346
India 2,078
Pakistan 1,728
Argentina 1,622
New Zealand 1,525
Chile 991
Australia 935
Ireland 619
Mexico 474
Türkiye 471
Portugal 429
Italy 428

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Due to the food types being user entered, these might also be of use:

2 Onions, 2 Spring Onions, Brown Onions, Crispy Onions, Dried Onions, Fried Onions, Large Onions, Mild Onions, Pickled Onions, Roast Onions

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