The sale of meat and fish sinks almost 15%. Pasta, rice and legumes are the products that fall the least. The year closed with consumption 8.8% lower than that of the previous period.
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The sharp rise in food prices in 2022 has caused a unprecedented drop in food consumption in Spain since there are registered data. According to the report on food consumption at home, prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, between October 2021 and October 2022 sales fell 8.8% in volume and a 2.5% on billing.
Although the drop in consumption is widespread, it is noticeable above all that sales are shifting to the cheapest products. While pasta and legumes suffer falls of 1.4% and 2.2% respectively, the consumption of meat and fish products has plummeted, with falls close to 15%. In the case of meat, sales have fallen on average by 12.4% and in fish by 14.7%. Regarding the rest of the products, the fall in the consumption of vegetables and potatoes stands out, 13.9%, that of milk and derivatives that does not evolve favorably either (-11.2%), as well as that of oil, 8 .5% less.
Meat
The consumption of meat loses attractiveness, because all meat segments decrease, frozen meat loses 19.2% of the volume, processed meat does so by 8.6% and the type of fresh meat accumulates a decrease of 13 .6%. Within the fresh meat segment, a notable decline for the purchase of sheep/goats (24.7%), while beef and rabbit meat exceeded a negative 15.0% variation. Fresh chicken and pork meats are the best to withstand the decline with declines of 13.8% and 10.0% respectively.
Fish
The fishing sector suffered a strong contraction (14.7%), which was transferred to the consumption of fish, whether fresh (16.3%) or frozen (13.0%). Shellfish/mollusc/crustacean consumption also lost intensity with an unfavorable evolution of 17.1%, while canned fish/mollusc lost 8.7% of the volume.
Dairy, eggs and oil
The dairy sector is not evolving favorably either (6.5%). However, it falls below the market decline (8.8%). Households reduce the consumption of both fluid milk (5.8%) and dairy products (7.4%).
For their part, other basic food products also fell, such as eggs (8.9%) and sugar (16.7%). Nor did the purchase of bread (7.0%) or legumes (2.2%) increase at the end of the moving year in October 2022.
The purchase of oil is reduced (8.5%). However, the growth in the average price of 36.4% drives the growth of olive oil turnover by 24.7%. The contraction of the sector is transversal to the two types of oil with the greatest participation in the market, which are sunflower oil and olive oils with falls of 18.3% and 4.2% respectively.
Fresh products
Fresh products are also losing presence in households, with a contraction in the volume of fresh vegetables and potatoes (13.9%), as well as fresh fruit (12.2%). The most negative evolutions occurred in the purchase of pepper with a decline of 17.5%, as well as in the purchase of watermelon with a decline of 25.1%. The drop in the purchase of lemon, banana, pear, cherry and peach, among others, exceeds double-digit variation.
Drinks
As for beverages, no type manages to improve the figures of 12 months ago, highlighting the contraction of wine and derivatives (13.8%). Negative evolution for soft drinks and soft drinks (6.3%), as well as for bottled drinking water (2.8%). Neither did spirituous beverages gain presence in households, with a decrease of 11.1%, as well as beer and cider, with losses of 8.3% and 13.1% respectively.
Source: Eitb
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