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24 September 2014

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Eat the West

Food mileometer

The honey in your sandwich could have come 5,000 miles to your table, instead of from local hives in the Cotswolds. Take a look at our food mileometer to see how far the food in your lunchbox has travelled.

The distance food travels before it reaches your lunchbox soon adds up. Many of our favourite foods can travel across the world, despite there being a West Country alternative often available.

To help you with our Eat the West local lunchbox challenge, we've taken some of the UK's most popular foods and worked out the distance they travel from the two countries who export the most to us.

Beef
Ireland - 203 miles
Brazil - 7,150 miles

Lamb
New Zealand - 11713 miles
Australia - 10,656 miles

Chicken
Netherlands - 327 miles
Thailand - 6,029 miles

Honey
Argentina - 6808 miles
Brazil - 6,400 miles

Apples
France - 250 miles
South Africa - 5,656 miles

Strawberries
Spain - 765 miles
Netherlands - 327 miles

Vegetables
Spain - 765 miles
Netherlands - 327 miles

Cereal (for bread)
Irish Republic - 203 miles
France - 250 miles

Milk
France - 250 miles
Irish Republic - 203 miles

last updated: 05/05/06