New figures have revealed which popular supermarket products and commodities have increased the most over the past year. Overall food and drink inflation reached 15 per cent in December across the eight major British supermarkets.
According to tracking data by consumer group Which?, butters and spreads rose by an "astonishing" 29.4 per cent. Meanwhile, milk was 26.3 per cent more expensive than the year before with other items seeing a higher-than-average price increase such as cheese (22.3 per cent), bakery items (19.5 per cent), water (18.6 per cent) and savoury pies, pastries, and quiches (18.5 per cent).
Across the three months leading up to December, Utterly Butterly 500g rose from £1 to £1.95. Other dairy products which shot up in price include Waitrose Dutchy Organic Homogenised Semi-Skimmed milk which rose from 65p to £1.22 (an 87.1 per cent rise) as well as Creamfields French Brie 200g at Tesco which rose from 79p to £1.43 (81.6 per cent).
