Don’t want to worry anyone unnecessarily, but there’s going to be a hummus shortage. It’s all a bit of a perfect storm situation. Russia is a huge exporter of chickpeas (who knew), and due to the war in Ukraine and the worldwide sanctions against Russia, it means that there’s a sizable deficit in supply coming down the pike.
According to recent reports, this shortfall is somewhere in the region of 250,000 tonnes per year that would otherwise be stocking our shelves, in fact. Around 20%.
This shortfall will also affect countries in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent, which depend on the legumes more than we do, and will find prices escalating ever higher for something that is generally a cheap source of protein.
