The price of the food basket decreased again this week after a brief pause last week, according to an analysis by DECO PROteste.
This week, from September 10 to 17, experts report that the essential basket of 63 products costs 240.38 euros, 0.26 cents less than last week.
However, this remains one of the highest prices ever recorded. At the beginning of the year, the basket cost 4.22 euros less than it does now, and when compared to 2022, before the war in Ukraine, there was an even greater difference of 52.68 euros.
Even when compared to the same period last year, namely September 18, 2024, and September 17, 2025, the increase was 13.08 euros, or 5.76%.
Regarding the products with the highest increase this week, DECO PROteste highlights horse mackerel, fresh hake, and beef for boiling.
The price of the food basket has been calculated by DECO PROteste since January 2022, monitoring the evolution of essential food items. It analyzes the total cost of the basket weekly, on Wednesdays, via the online stores of major supermarkets.
It should be noted that the basket includes meat, frozen foods, fruits and vegetables, dairy, groceries, and fish. It considers products such as turkey, chicken, horse mackerel, hake, onion, potato, carrot, banana, apple, orange, rice, spaghetti, sugar, ham, milk, cheese, and butter, among others.
Inflation rate rose again in August
The increase in food prices is due to the rising inflation rate, which grew by 2.8% in August, 0.2 percentage points more than in July, according to preliminary estimates released at the end of the month by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Information gathered by the institute, still subject to revision, points to an acceleration in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
After the index difference in July compared to the same month last year was 2.64%, the rate increased to 2.78% this month, according to the INE’s statistical summary.
The underlying inflation indicator, which excludes unprocessed food and energy products, recorded a variation of 2.5% compared to August last year. In this case, the difference is the same as in July.
“The index change for energy products was -0.2% (-1.1% in July) and the index for unprocessed food products accelerated again to 7.0% (6.1% the previous month),” details the INE.
The overall CPI variance compared to July (in sequence) was negative, with the monthly difference being -0.2%. The decline was smaller than that recorded from June to July, which was -0.4%.
