Calculating Food Miles for a Multiple Ingredient Food Product

March 2005

Rich Pirog, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and Andrew Benjamin, ISU Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

This report details the assumptions and calculations used to estimate the food miles for a container of strawberry yogurt.

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