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Cherry Tomatoes Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Cherry Tomatoes" has been searched for 5,650 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 10,358,550 miles!

This means that the average distance is 1,833 miles - that's 55% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 550 kg CO2 by plane, 502 kg CO2 by car, or 103 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of tomatoes is estimated to generate roughly 2.09 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, Tomatoes, 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
Morocco 2,026
Spain 898
Italy 352
Netherlands 341
Mexico 236
Portugal 198
Tunisia 195
Israel 159
United Kingdom 118
Peru 94
Senegal 79
Korea, South 73
Australia 54
United States 51
Greece 47
Malaysia 45
Belgium 41
Egypt 35
Ecuador 34

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