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Smoked Salmon Food Miles

How Far Has It Travelled?

In total "Smoked Salmon" has been searched for 1,103 times. The total mileage contribution of this is 3,957,421 miles!

This means that the average distance is 3,588 miles - that's 12% closer than the average distance across everything tracked by the calculator.

Based on average UK government emissions figures, travelling that distance produces roughly 1076 kg CO2 by plane, 983 kg CO2 by car, or 201 kg CO2 by train.

For context: growing/producing 1kg of farmed fish is estimated to generate roughly 13.63 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, Farmed fish, 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
Norway 284
United Kingdom 257
Canada 190
United States 52
Netherlands 43
Denmark 41
Australia 37
Ireland 26
Germany 15
Russia 13
New Zealand 10
China 8
American Samoa 7
France 7
Mexico 7
Poland 6
United Arab Emirates 5
Spain 4
Afghanistan 4

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