Food prices in Russia and their change for the week and month, data as of June 26, 2023

Weekly food price change

Food items that have risen in price over the week

To a greater extent, the increase in prices over the week, according to AB-Center, affected such food products as potatoes (+4.6%), carrots (+4.2%), table beets (+1.4%), apples (+ 1.4%), chicken meat (+1.3%).

Prices also increased for granulated sugar (+0.9%), dry milk formulas for baby food (+0.5%), canned meat for baby food (+0.4%), whole frozen fish (+0.4 %), sausages and sausages (+0.3%), canned vegetables for baby food (+0.3%), canned fruits and berries for baby food (+0.3%), butter (+ 0.3 % ), biscuits (+0.2%), polished rice (+0.2%), beef on the bone (+0.2%), vodka (+0.2%), boiled sausage (+0.2%) , lamb on the bone (+0.1%), table salt (+0.1%), margarine (+0.1%), bread made from rye flour and from a mixture of rye and wheat flour (+0.1%) , pork on the bone (+0.1%), bread and bakery products from wheat flour of various varieties (+0.01%).

Food items that have dropped in price over the week

As for the price reduction, it affected hard and soft rennet cheeses (-0.03%), semi-smoked and boiled-smoked sausages (-0.03%), fresh cucumbers (-0.1%), sterilized milk (-0.03%). .1%), wheat flour (-0.1%), millet (-0.2%), long leaf black tea (-0.2%), pasteurized milk (-0.2%), wheat flour pasta premium (-0.2%), sour cream (-0.2%), cottage cheese (-0.3%), vermicelli (-0.3%), chicken eggs (-0.4%), sunflower oil ( -0.7%), buckwheat groats (-0.7%), bananas (-1.0%), fresh white cabbage (-1.5%), fresh tomatoes (-3.1%), onions onion (-3.9%).

Monthly food price change

Food items that have risen in price in a month

To a greater extent, the increase in prices over the month, according to AB-Center, affected such food products as potatoes (+23.9%), carrots (+20.6%), table beet (+12.5%), chicken meat ( +6.5%), apples (+5.9%).

Also, price strengthening over the month was observed for granulated sugar (+4.1%), canned meat for baby food (+1.9%), lamb on the bone (+1.4%), polished rice (+1.2% ), whole frozen fish (+0.9%), dry milk formulas for baby food (+0.5%), table salt (+0.5%), sausages and sausages (+0.5%), pork on the bone (+0.4%), bread and bakery products made from wheat flour of various varieties (+0.3%), beef on the bone (+0.2%), vodka (+0.1%), canned vegetables for baby food (+0.1%), biscuits (+0.1%), bread made from rye flour and from a mixture of rye and wheat flour (+0.03%), canned fruits and berries for baby food (+0.01 %).

Food products that have decreased in price in a month

During the month, the price of butter decreased (-0.1%), semi-smoked and boiled-smoked sausage (-0.1%), sterilized milk (-0.2%), long leaf black tea (-0.3%), boiled sausage (-0.3%), margarine (-0.4%), hard and soft rennet cheeses (-0.5%), premium wheat flour pasta (-0.5%), sour cream (- 0.7%), pasteurized milk (-0.7%), cottage cheese (-0.9%), millet (-1.0%), vermicelli (-1.2%), wheat flour (-1.3 %), sunflower oil (-1.5%), buckwheat groats (-2.5%), chicken eggs (-2.9%), fresh cucumbers (-5.3%), fresh white cabbage (- 11.7%), bananas (-12.2%), onions (-12.6%), fresh tomatoes (-22.4%).

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