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Pistachios Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Pistachios" has been searched for 1,844 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 6,615,922 miles!

This means that the average distance is 3,588 miles - that's 12% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1076 kg CO2 by plane, 983 kg CO2 by car, or 201 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of nuts is estimated to generate roughly 0.43 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, Nuts, 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 States 698
Iran 354
Türkiye 135
India 89
Italy 84
Afghanistan 61
Germany 38
China 29
Syria 24
Australia 21
United Kingdom 19
Greece 18
Vietnam 15
American Samoa 14
Ireland 13
Uzbekistan 13
Thailand 12
Mexico 10
Spain 10

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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