“I use wasabi in my salad dressing to replace it,” says Qun, a teacher who sometimes goes to stations in highway service areas to find mustard.
"But it's very expensive, you pay twice the price," criticizes the teacher.
For several months, the French have struggled to find the jars of mustard necessary for the kitchen, on the shelves of supermarkets.
A situation reminiscent of the shortage of sunflower oil last month.
But if the war in Ukraine was the cause of the oil shortage, it does not entirely explain the start of the mustard shortage in France.
"The main causes of the shortage of mustards are the drought in Canada in July 2021 and the bad weather conditions in Burgundy since winter 2021", explains Luc Vandermaesen, general manager of the "Reine de Dijon", France's third-largest mustard manufacturer. .
A situation that should last until September 2022, when the seed harvest will be finished.