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Milk Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Milk" has been searched for 35,788 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 84,748,193 miles!

This means that the average distance is 2,368 miles - that's 42% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 710 kg CO2 by plane, 649 kg CO2 by car, or 133 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of milk is estimated to generate roughly 3.15 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, Milk, 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 Kingdom 8,732
Australia 3,069
United States 2,878
India 1,791
Ireland 1,683
Germany 1,249
New Zealand 1,112
France 1,008
Canada 609
China 601
Belgium 564
Netherlands 563
Türkiye 514
Poland 498
Japan 481
United Arab Emirates 408
Saudi Arabia 360
Brazil 355
Austria 324

Related Items

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

250 Ml Milk, 250ml Milk, A2 Milk , Almond Milk, Banana Milk, Binggrae Banana Milk, Butter Milk, Buttermilk, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Cadbury Dairy Milk 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.

Browse every food we've tracked, see the most well-travelled items overall, or head back to the food miles cloud.