Family favourites such as Heinz tomato ketchup and Lurpak spreadable butter have sharply increased in price over the past two years, research has found.
Consumer champion Which? found that the biggest rise overall was Heinz Tomato Ketchup, which saw an increase of 91p - or 53% - for its 460g top-down version bottle when it compared the prices of the 79 items at Asda, Morrisons, Ocado, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Waitrose over a 30-day period from September 21 to October 20 in both 2020 and 2022. It found that the price of some branded foods had increased far more than the rate of inflation, with none rising less than 22%.
Two other Heinz products also made the top 10 in the highest price rises compiled by Which? – the brand’s cream of chicken and tomato soups.
