The Plan

We decided to investigate how far various items of fruit had travelled from their source to the supermarket in Winchester City Centre. The things we wanted to investigate were:

• How far the following fruits had travelled: bananas, apples, strawberries, melons, pineapples and grapes.
• Which shop's fruit has less food miles?
• Which fruit comes from furthest away?
• How much organic and fairtrade produce the shops sold?

To do this we went into various shops around Winchester City Centre and found out where the fruit had come from and then later worked out how far it had travelled.