Food Price Index: January 2012

In January 2012 compared with December 2011:

• Food prices showed no overall change.
• Fruit and vegetable prices rose 3.6 percent, reflecting seasonally higher prices for lettuce, mandarins, and strawberries, among others. 
• Restaurant meals and ready-to-eat food prices rose 0.2 percent.
• Grocery food prices fell 0.2 percent.
• Non-alcoholic beverage prices fell 0.9 percent.
• Meat, poultry, and fish prices fell 1.8 percent, influenced by more discounting for chicken pieces in January than in December.

From January 2011 to January 2012:

• Food prices increased 1.0 percent.
• Pumpkin prices increased 107 percent. The higher-than-usual price reflected a shortage in the supply of pumpkins to the domestic market.

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