Orange with 6Medias, published on Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 3:53 p.m.
Inflation never stops hitting the wallets of the French and this time it attacks breakfast products, according to figures from INSEE, relayed by BFM TV. Butter in particular has seen its price soar in one year.
Breakfasts are increasingly salty.
And it’s not a question of taste but of price. The majority of foods consumed at breakfast are not spared by inflation and see their prices skyrocket, according to figures from INSEE, reported by BFM TV.
Coffee, the star of breakfasts, has seen an increase of 11.2% in the space of a year. Same sentence for whole milk, which sees its price jump by 7.8%, or semi-skimmed or skimmed milk (+ 9.4%). Alternative to coffee, powdered chocolate and cocoa are also subject to the law of inflation and see their prices increase by 6.7%, in the same way as fruit juices (+6%). Only tea and infusions limit the damage but do not escape an increase of 3.1% in one year.
Several increase factors
However, it is not just morning drinks that are affected by this price spike. The favorite foods of the French for the first meal of the day are also affected. A faithful companion to toast, butter is the food with the biggest price increase with a jump of 15.8% between August 2021 and August 2022. In addition, bread is also 8% more expensive than the year past. The other essentials of the most important meal of the day take the lead in the wing such as yogurt (+9.7%), eggs (+11.4%) and cereals (+9.5%).
As with other foods suffering from inflation, there are several factors explaining the rise in prices. The first is the rising cost of production for producers due to the rise in energy prices resulting from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The changing climate also plays its role, especially for coffee, the world’s largest producer is Brazil, where floods and frosts have disrupted production, making the commodity scarce. Last factor explaining this sudden price increase, the cost charged to transport, which is now done by cross roads in order to avoid conflict zones.
