TESCO has joined supermarkets like Iceland and Morrisons in rationing a staple household item.
The grocery giants have started limited how much cooking oil shoppers can purchase due to shortages sparked by the Ukraine and Russia conflict.
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Tesco customers can only buy three bottles per person across its entire cooking oil range.
Yet a selection of sunflower oil and vegetable oil products are already out of stock on the retailer’s website currently.
Morrisons, Waitrose and Iceland were quick to impose their own buying limits on sunflower oil earlier in the week too.
Shoppers can only buy two bottles of the oil at the posh supermarket, and only two bottles at budget rival Morrisons.
Meanwhile Iceland set the limit at one bottle per person.
Ukraine and Russia make most of the world’s sunflower oil, but the ongoing war has majorly disrupted production.
That means shops have pushed up the price of what they do have still lining the shelves in some instances.
Since January this year, it’s thought cooking oil prices have gone up by more than 10%.
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The shops meanwhile are trying to offer alternatives while shortages rage on.
And as sunflower oil is also an ingredient in household favourites such as crisps and oven chips, popular recipes including Walkers have been changed.
The Food Standards Agency has urged consumers to be cautious with products that may be labelled as containing sunflower oil when in fact they could contain alternatives such as rapeseed oil.
Anyone with allergies should look out for extra information.
The diminishing availability of cooking oil on supermarket shelves isn’t the only supply issue currently impacting shoppers.
There’s a lacking supply of eggs due to rising feed prices for chickens and rocketing energy costs.
And a tomato shortage means prices have shot up by 60% in a year.
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