The price hammer hits more and more food.
After pasta, chocolate and coffee, spices are now also becoming more expensive.
Which everyday products are next?
Pepper for the steak, a plate of spaghetti, a piece of chocolate, a cup of coffee: what seems to be taken for granted today could become almost unaffordable.
After skyrocketing prices * for pasta, chocolate and coffee, spices are now also becoming more expensive.
Whether pepper or paprika, cumin, turmeric, ginger or nutmeg: the price increase does not stop at any of the popular herbs.
Price explosion for food: climate change and corona are to blame
Researchers make climate change largely responsible for the rise in prices in supermarkets and discounters.
Heavy rain, drought and forest fires resulted in poor harvests.
One consequence: the prices for pasta are rising noticeably.
"This year's harvest is not enough, and we see a doubling, sometimes tripling the prices for durum wheat," Guido Jeremiasder, division spokesman pasta and durum wheat mills by the Association of grain, milling and starch industry (VGM) versus explains
ruhr24.de
the " dramatic situation ”.
"A lot of food could become unaffordable for many people," warns Monique Raats, from the University of Surrey, to the
BBC
. According to Monika Zurek (University of Oxford), chocolate and coffee could soon also be luxury goods. This development now also threatens spices. According to experts, the Corona * pandemic and the increased container costs are responsible for the inflation.
The costs are currently around 900 percent higher than the freight costs than before the pandemic.
The import-dependent spice industry is particularly hard hit by this.
As the lifestyle magazine
wmn.de
reports, the situation is exacerbated by delivery bottlenecks and the increased demand for spices in the countries of origin.
In addition, many harvest workers were missing due to Corona.
The result: the spices are becoming scarce and expensive.
Groceries in the supermarket are becoming more expensive - prices will not ease until 2022
An easing of the price trend is not in sight for the time being.
According to
wmn.de,
Markus Weck,
General Manager of
the Association of the Spice
Industry
, does
not expect
lower prices until the second half of 2022. Until then, the situation for both classic spices and Mediterranean herbs will remain extremely tense.
After all: onions, potatoes and white cabbage have become cheaper.
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