The price of the fruits also went up in Hungary

Inflation soared this year, reaching an annual rate of 6.5 percent in October. Food also played a role in high inflation, although in this product group the CSO measured a below-average price increase of 5.2 percent. The rise in the prices of cooking oil, flour and margarine, among others, was outstanding, with these products up 12.5 to 30.4 per cent more than a year ago. photo: pxfuel.com COMPARISON WITH FRUIT AND SOUTHERN FRUIT, WHICH WAS ONLY 1.2 PER CENT OF ANNUAL PRICE INCREASES, WAS MORE RESTRICTED. This can be partly explained by the fact that the base was high, ie last year the fruits were already a lot, for example last October they produced an outstanding increase of more than 30 percent. In its analysis of the living standards of households, the CSO also pointed out that per capita fruit consumption fell by 13 per cent to less than 47 kilograms in 2020 due to last year's price increase. Of course, you can get fruit cheaper than the national average price measured by the ...