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UK Average Food Item Prices (ONS)
Average UK retail prices for individual food and non-alcoholic beverage items from the ONS shopping-prices comparison tool, with each item’s pack size, category and year-on-year change. A shopping-basket-level view of what everyday groceries actually cost, alongside the headline ONS food inflation rate.
142 food items · Office for National Statistics · Open Government Licence v3.0
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This dataset is available as machine-readable JSON — including provenance, columns, key figures and a verbatim sample of rows — and as a spreadsheet-ready CSV sample, for researchers, journalists and AI assistants. Every figure traces to the source below.
Methodology
Item prices are copied verbatim from the ONS shopping-prices comparison tool for the reference period, retaining each item’s unit, COICOP category and the ONS-published year-on-year change. The headline food inflation rate is the ONS Consumer Price Inflation figure for the stated period. No prices are averaged across items, re-weighted or estimated.
How this snapshot is prepared & verified
- Source. Retrieved from ONS — Shopping prices comparison tool (average prices of items in the CPIH basket) (Office for National Statistics), the official publisher, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Reference period: 2025-01.
- Verbatim capture. Every figure shown here is copied from, or computed directly from, that snapshot — nothing is estimated, rounded away or hand-entered.
- Verification. Column values are checked against the published source before release, and the licence and attribution are preserved exactly as issued.
- Re-publication. The snapshot is exposed as a citable page plus JSON and CSV downloads so it stays independently verifiable and quotable.
The JSON summary and CSV export contain a verbatim sample of the snapshot with full provenance. The complete dataset is available from the original source linked above.
Sample rows
A verbatim sample from the verified snapshot. Full data is in the JSON summary and on the source page.
| item | avgPrice | unit | yoyPctChange |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basmati rice | 2.03 | 500g-1kg | -3.8 |
| Bread rolls (white or brown) | 1.08 | pack of 6 | -1.8 |
| Breakfast cereal (gluten free) | 2.66 | each | 3.9 |
| Breakfast cereal (low-sugar/non-chocolate coated) | 2.37 | each | 2.6 |
| Breakfast cereal (sugar/chocolate coated) | 2.84 | each | 3.6 |
| Cereal bar | 0.34 | one bar | 0 |
| Chilled garlic bread | 1.09 | each | 4.8 |
| Couscous | 0.95 | 100-500g | 0 |
Provenance
- Source:
- ONS — Shopping prices comparison tool (average prices of items in the CPIH basket)
- Publisher:
- Office for National Statistics
- Coverage:
- United Kingdom — CPIH-basket food & non-alcoholic beverage items
- As of:
- 2025-01
- Licence:
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Source: Office for National Statistics shopping prices comparison tool. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Re-published by GeraEats at https://geraeats.com/data/uk-food-item-prices.