Pasta price in UK doubles as costs of basics rises - BBC News

The

price

of

pasta

has almost doubled in two years as

costs

rise for a wide range of supermarket staples. According to new BBC research, breaking down the figure, a standard 500g bag of

pasta

cost 50p two years ago. 95 Pence The BBC has been tracking the cost of a small basket of 15 essential items, the total of which has risen by five pounds 34 in two years, although official figures suggest that overall UK inflation may have peaked at 11 .1 percent in October, the rate of food

price

increase remains 16.7 percent. Our business correspondent Emma Simpson has been analyzing the research and has more details on how prices are changing and why these are some of the foods we buy every day and gives us an idea of ​​where our budgets are. being stretched, take the strawberry jam, it's up 57 in two years.

Oven chips are up 45 and look at 500 grams of pasta, it's 90 more expensive, so almost double the price we've been tracking for these 15 popular items in major supermarkets. It is the standard range that most buyers buy now these items together cost a third more than two years ago food production requires a lot of energy and the cost of gas has skyrocketed, but recently gas prices have been falling, so Why do food prices continue to increase? The food on our supermarket shelves is incredibly complicated. Products change hands many times before reaching us as consumers, so cost increases at the beginning of the supply chain take a long time to be transmitted to all steps.

Until we actually find them in the store, how high will food price inflation go? I think we are almost at the peak. We believe food price inflation will rise to something between 17 and 19 annually in the first part of 2023 and then food price inflation will begin to decline fairly quickly the shortages are not helping Bad weather has disrupted the supply of fresh fruit and vegetables we rely on from abroad at this time of year, meanwhile British growers have been planting fewer crops as they store energy and fertiliser.

costs

, they've also had a hard time getting people to pick them up, if farmers don't grow as much produce here, if they grow different crops or just don't plant things here because it's not economical and makes a loss, then we're going to have to import more from other places and that inevitably means inflation because the cost of doing it is higher, more pressure on food prices, which for now only seem to be going in one direction and that depends Emma Simpson BBC News