Annual food prices were 4.5 percent higher in December 2021 than they were in December 2020, Stats NZ said today.
This is the biggest annual increase since September 2011, when annual food prices increased 4.7 percent.
The main contributor to this increase was higher prices for tomatoes.
Tomatoes nearly doubled in price between December 2020 and December 2021, increasing 99 percent.
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