Cooking oil

Most of the UK's sunflower oil comes from Ukraine, which has resulted in restrictions applying to that product as well as olive and rapeseed oils at some ...

If a customer is unable to find their preferred oil, we have plenty of alternatives to choose from. Most of the UK's sunflower oil comes from Ukraine, which has resulted in restrictions applying to that product as well as olive and rapeseed oils at some supermarkets. Most of the UK's sunflower oil comes from Ukraine, which has resulted in restrictions applying to that product as well as olive and rapeseed oils at some supermarkets.

Supermarkets in Norfolk and across the UK have limited cooking oil purchases due to supply-chain issues caused by the Ukraine war.

Mr Holder from the BRC said retailers were "working with suppliers to ramp up production of alternative cooking oils, to minimise the impact on consumers". "It is not as frenzied as the toilet roll panic buying from a couple of years ago, and we are managing to maintain an offer," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. Supermarkets in Norfolk and across the UK have limited the amount of cooking oil shoppers can buy due to supply-chain issues.

Supply chain problems for cooking oil have been caused by the war in Ukraine.

Recent data showed cooking oil was one of a range of food staples to have its price shoot up. Supermarkets across the UK have placed limits on how much cooking oil customers can buy due to supply-chain problems caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Supermarkets limit cooking oil purchases due to shortages caused by war in Ukraine

The restrictions apply to sunflower oil, as well as olive and rapeseed oils at some supermarkets. | ITV National News.

Recent data showed cooking oil was one of a range of food staples to have its price increase. If a customer is unable to find their preferred oil, we have plenty of alternatives to choose from. Tesco said in a statement: “We have good availability of cooking oils in stores and online.

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Tesco, which is not represented by the BRC, said in a statement: “We have good availability of cooking oils in stores and online. Not only are they paying more for what little sunflower and rapeseed oil remains, but they are also having to look for substitutes - namely palm oil - with the prices of these substitutes now also going up due to demand. Both countries are key suppliers of sunflower and rapeseed oil - two products which are not only used in cooking oils but are key ingredients in many food products, like mayonnaise and crisps.

Supermarkets are limiting how much cooking oil can be bought due to supply issues caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine - while a crisp maker is also ...

"We were producing in sunflower oil up until about two or three weeks ago, and a lot of the oil we were using would have been sourced in Ukraine, and almost overnight that source of oil was unavailable to us," he told the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2. And the managing director of an Essex-based crisp maker has said the company's supplies of sunflower oil dried up "almost overnight" due to the war in Ukraine. The country supplies most of the UK's sunflower oil. Tesco is allowed three items per customer while Waitrose and Morrisons have placed limits of just two items each, according to the BBC.