The Christmas shopping basket will become more expensive by 5.2%, with pineapple and lamb as highlights

The Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) has warned of the 5.2% price increase of “typical Christmas foods”, six of which have reached “historic highs”, such as lamb, pineapple and sea bream.

The consumer organization has launched the Christmas Price Observatory, an analysis that aims to “monitor” the evolution of food prices during these dates, they explained in a statement.

Since 2015, the OCU has analyzed the price of 16 typical Christmas products in high demand in municipal markets, supermarkets and hypermarkets in Albacete, Barcelona. BilbaoMadrid, Malaga, Seville and Valencia.

According to the compared data, ten products in the Christmas basket increase in price.

These are oysters (19%), pomegranate (17%), suckling lamb (16%), sea bass (12%), Iberian bait ham (11%), sea bream (10%), pineapple (10%), glass eel (9%) , Galician barnacles (8%) and veal (6%).

And of those that have increased the most, six are at the maximum: lamb, veal round, sea bream, red cabbage, pineapple and pomegranate.

On the contrary, red cabbage maintains its price, while mussels (-19%), turkey (-6%), shrimps (-5%), pularda (-3%) and hake (-1%).

For the OCU, the main increases are aimed at products with lower supply than usual and strong demand at the moment, and in general they have warned that This year’s Christmas basket will be one of the most expensive in recent years.

The organization advises consumers to plan Christmas meals well, make purchases in advance, take advantage of offers or replace more expensive products with cheaper ones.