(ANSA) - ROME - The impact of high prices affects Italians already upon waking up for breakfast with increases ranging from + 9.8% for biscuits to + 19% for stored milk, but the effect of energy increases is made hear also on bread (+ 13.6%), sugar (+ 14.9%) butter (+ 33.5%) and jams (+ 7.9%) without forgetting the coffee which marks a + 6.7% .
This is what emerges from Coldiretti's analysis of Istat inflation data in August compared to the same month of the previous year.
The increase in prices does not spare even the natural diet with the yoghurt price lists + 12.1%, fruit + 8.3%, breakfast cereals + 5.5%, while those who love the continental meal eggs are up by + 15.2% and cured meats by + 6.8%.
But it is also a bitter breakfast for farmers and their dairy cows, explains Coldiretti, with the explosion of electricity, gas, fuel and feed bills that is bringing thousands of stalls to the brink of closure where the business does not stop. can stop without killing animals.
Increases affecting the entire food chain with indirect costs ranging from glass increased by more than 30% in one year, to tetrapack (+ 15% (, labels (+ 35%)), cardboard (+ 45%), to plastic (+ 70%). (ANSA).