Here is the food that has become the most expensive – News

The heat and drought of the summer have hit farmers hard in the country, but for consumers, it is not flour or grains that have become more expensive in the context of wholesale trade.

Instead, the trend is maintained with high and persistent vegetable prices, says new statistics from Statistics Sweden (SCB). Vegetable prices have generally increased by 11.3% and those of fruits by 6.2% in September compared to the same period of last year.

One of the worst things in the vegetable dish is cauliflower, which has increased by 55%, while paprika, in turn, has lost 37%.

For lemon lovers, it's also bad, up 35%, while apples have ripped 20%.

It is extremely correlated to provide. The harvest was below demand. Lemons, for example, are imported from southern Europe, peppers from central Europe and cauliflower from Sweden. Everyone is affected by the weather, says Nichlas Olofsson, director of Coop's business area, at TT.

Higher prices

Those who hope to offset rising prices of fruits and vegetables by falling meat prices due to the construction of emergency shelters due to the heat of summer should not have too many expectations, well on the contrary.

My picture is that Swedish meat prices are rising rather than falling. This summer, the focus was on the emergency slaughter, but we have not seen the effects, but we see instead that it has been structured and that the l & # 39; supply will be less important in the future. This leads to higher prices as it will also be more expensive with food in the spring, "Nicholas Olofsson said.

I do not believe in lower prices, although there have been some promotions on the market with Swedish meat but this has been marginal.

Thank you for the price of coffee

However, it is not quite dark and all the goods have not become more expensive. Coffee has slowed by 1.3% and anyone who wants to make soup can enjoy the yellow onion at least 7.5% cheaper.

Coffee has become cheaper on two individual components, in part because of commodity prices in the stock market and the US dollar when all coffee deals are traded in the United States and in US dollars, said Nichlas Olofsson .