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Hot Chocolate Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Hot Chocolate" has been searched for 1,421 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 3,628,292 miles!

This means that the average distance is 2,553 miles - that's 37% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 766 kg CO2 by plane, 700 kg CO2 by car, or 143 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of dark chocolate is estimated to generate roughly 46.65 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, Dark chocolate, 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
Switzerland 233
United Kingdom 126
Mexico 122
Ghana 112
Germany 90
Ireland 87
Belgium 65
Spain 50
Netherlands 42
Australia 33
Eswatini 30
United States 29
Brazil 24
France 19
Dominican Republic 17
Poland 17
New Zealand 16
Argentina 13
American Samoa 13

Related Items

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

Cadbury Hot Chocolate, Hot Chocolate Powder, Instant Hot Chocolate

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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