Cocoa, bird flu and blue tongue make the holiday more expensive. Eggs worry on the sponge cake and folar: Price rose 20% over the previous year.
Easter will be more expensive this year. The Sunday of April 20 will be marked by an increase in prices that have affected the sweets, meat and the folar and even the flowers.
All of these sectors complain about prices. Egg price climbing, driven by the influenza of birds, is having a direct impact on the production costs of emblematic sweets such as Lot bread and the beetle. The disease forced the slaughter of thousands of birds in countries such as Spain and the United States, which affected the supply and pressed the market.
In Ovar, note, the producers have already updated the price of sponge cake from 20 to 22 euros, with perspectives of new increases as Easter approaches. A box of eggs that cost 63 euros a few weeks ago is now close to 70 euros.
Hélder Pires, from the Association of Trade and the Bakery Industry (ACIP), confirms that the Egg prices rose 20% over the previous year.
To meat from kidAlways present at the Easter tables, it is also more expensive. THE blue tongue disease, that affected explorations of cattle and sheep, triggered the price by 30% At the end of 2024, and the values did not go down again. Currently, the kilo of Cabrito surrounds the 20 euros and the lamb The 12 euros.
Even in the sector of floresdriven by Easter, increases are noted.
Chocolate has been affected by the price of cocoa, which has constantly “fattened”: between December and January this year it fired almost 10%.
