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Oct 25 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Food prices are also affecting people’s #CostOfLiving – some lowest priced food items increased by more than 40% since Sept 2021 📈

Our new highly experimental data tracks how the lowest prices of 30 grocery items have changed since April 2021 🥫

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Groceries that have increased in price in the last year include:

🌶 vegetable oil by 65%
🍝 pasta by 60%
☕️ tea by 46%
🍟 chips by 39%
🍞 bread by 38%
🍪 biscuits by 34%

In the last five months:

🌶 vegetable oil by 46%
🍟 chips by 24%
🍞 bread by 22% Bar chart showing there was a substantial range of price mov
In cash terms, on average since April 2022:

🪙 vegetable oil rose 80p for one litre
🪙 chips rose 27p for 1.5kg
🪙 milk rose 25p for four pints Graphic stating “25p increase in the average lowest price
The only groceries to see their prices fall in the last year were:

🍊 orange juice by 9%
🥩 minced beef by 7%
🍬 sugar by 0.3%
🍚 rice by 0.2%
Use our interactive tool to compare how the prices of different grocery items have changed since April 2021.

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