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Chilli Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Chilli" has been searched for 5,993 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 25,380,610 miles!

This means that the average distance is 4,235 miles - that's 4% further than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1271 kg CO2 by plane, 1160 kg CO2 by car, or 237 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Mexico 1,204
India 543
Spain 466
Kenya 460
Egypt 383
Chile 291
Peru 222
United States 177
China 147
Brazil 126
Thailand 116
United Kingdom 106
Morocco 96
Senegal 93
Australia 62
Argentina 60
American Samoa 57
South Africa 56
Mozambique 50

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