Supermarkets limiting 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.

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.

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Prices have risen by an average of 12p to £1.26 for a one-litre bottle. It's some of the ingredients you don't even think about, like starch, which comes from wheat." However, the average price of a one-litre of own-brand organic sunflower oil of £3.10 has not appeared to have changed. Assosia found that there has been an increase in the price of a one-litre own-brand bottle of sunflower oil of more than 10 percent since January 2022. A Waitrose spokesperson told the BBC: "We are closely monitoring the situation and working with our suppliers to ensure customers continue to have a choice of cooking oils." As well as facing a limited supply, customers have also seen a rise in the price of cooking oils since the invasion first began.

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The Russian tanks and missiles besieging Ukraine are also threatening the food supply and livelihoods of people in Europe, Africa and Asia who rely on the vast, fertile farmlands of the Black Sea region known as the "breadbasket of the world". "These are all unintended consequences of the war in Ukraine that is affecting supermarkets." Iceland boss Mr Walker told Today: "If you look at commodity prices, sunflower oil has gone up 1,000% in terms of the commodity cost in the market, palm oil (up) 400% and then there is things like wheat, 50%, fertiliser, 350%.

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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.