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Cashews Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Cashews" has been searched for 2,310 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 11,572,282 miles!

This means that the average distance is 5,010 miles - that's 23% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1503 kg CO2 by plane, 1373 kg CO2 by car, or 281 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
Brazil 662
Vietnam 517
India 403
United States 147
Nigeria 48
Indonesia 35
Australia 28
Tanzania 26
Cote d'Ivoire 23
Thailand 22
Germany 22
Mozambique 22
China 20
United Kingdom 17
South Africa 15
Ireland 13
Benin 12
Afghanistan 11
France 11

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