{"id":54450,"date":"2023-04-19T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/datablog\/ng-interactive\/2023\/apr\/19\/food-costs-soar-in-new-zealand-see-how-prices-have-changed-with-this-interactive-chart"},"modified":"2023-04-19T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:19:58","slug":"food-costs-soar-in-new-zealand-see-how-prices-have-changed-with-this-interactive-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54450","title":{"rendered":"Food costs soar in New Zealand: see how prices have changed with this interactive chart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Groceries are up 12.1% year on year, with eggs, yoghurt and pastry products among items recording staggering increases<\/p>\n<p>New Zealanders are facing steep price increases for basic food products such as eggs, yoghurt and potatoes, while supermarket profits are sky-high and the recession is predicted to deepen.<\/p>\n<p>Government data released on Monday shows New Zealand\u2019s food prices have gone up 12.1% year on year. Fresh food has been affected the most of all, with the biggest increases for fruit and vegetables \u2013 up 22% \u2013 and grocery items up 14%. Some staples have gone through the roof: eggs are up 63% year on year, and yoghurt is up 21.7%. Pastry products are up 17.6%, poultry 15.2%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/datablog\/ng-interactive\/2023\/apr\/19\/food-costs-soar-in-new-zealand-see-how-prices-have-changed-with-this-interactive-chart\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groceries are up 12.1% year on year, with eggs, yoghurt and pastry products among items recording staggering increasesNew Zealanders are facing steep price increases for basic food products such as eggs, yoghurt and potatoes, while supermarket profits &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,311,2515,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-food","category-inflation","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54451,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450\/revisions\/54451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}