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Onions Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Onions" has been searched for 46,645 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 137,230,457 miles!

This means that the average distance is 2,942 miles - that's 28% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 883 kg CO2 by plane, 806 kg CO2 by car, or 165 kg CO2 by train.

The Top 20 sources are shown below:

Country From # of checks
Spain 4,603
United Kingdom 4,233
Netherlands 3,754
China 3,529
Iran 2,952
France 2,532
United States 2,429
Egypt 2,338
India 2,038
Pakistan 1,714
Argentina 1,619
New Zealand 1,511
Chile 965
Australia 931
Ireland 615
Mexico 474
Türkiye 469
Portugal 427
Italy 421

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

2 Onions, 2 Spring Onions, Brown Onions, Crispy Onions, Dried Onions, Fried Onions, Large Onions, Mild Onions, Pickled Onions, Salad Onions

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