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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Miranda Bryant

Tomato-free pizza on UK menus as chefs choke on the price of fruit and veg

Picture of a homemade pizza margherita on a chopping board with a pizza cutter lying beside it
Margherita pizza, with basil, mozzarella and tomato, may become rarer in the UK. Photograph: Martin Poole/The Observer

Get ready for tomato-less pasta sauce and white pizza. Italian restaurants across Britain are having to ration tomatoes, increase prices and in some cases remove the pomodoro from their menus entirely as costs soar.

The price of tomatoes has increased as much as fourfold in the past year, from £5 a case to £20 a case, according to the Federazione Italian Cuochi UK (FIC UK), a chefs’ association.

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