{"id":"uk-food-item-prices","title":"UK Average Food Item Prices (ONS)","description":"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.","url":"https://geraeats.com/data/uk-food-item-prices","csvUrl":"https://geraeats.com/data/uk-food-item-prices/sample.csv","coverage":"United Kingdom — CPIH-basket food & non-alcoholic beverage items","spatialCoverage":"United Kingdom","temporalCoverage":"2025-01","rowCount":142,"rowUnit":"food items","provenance":{"source":"ONS — Shopping prices comparison tool (average prices of items in the CPIH basket)","sourceUrl":"https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/adhocs/2724shoppingpricescomparisontooldatadownloadbeforethe2025update","publisher":"Office for National Statistics","licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0","licenceUrl":"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","attribution":"Source: Office for National Statistics shopping prices comparison tool. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.","asOf":"2025-01","modified":"2026-06-25"},"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.","keyFigures":[{"label":"Items priced","value":"142"},{"label":"Food inflation","value":"2.2%","note":"12 months to May 2026"},{"label":"Reference period","value":"2025-01"},{"label":"Licence","value":"Open Government Licence v3.0"}],"columns":[{"name":"item","description":"Food item description as published by ONS"},{"name":"avgPrice","description":"Average UK retail price (GBP)"},{"name":"unit","description":"Pack size / unit the price refers to"},{"name":"yoyPctChange","description":"Year-on-year % change in the average price"}],"sampleRows":[{"item":"Basmati rice","avgPrice":2.03,"unit":"500g-1kg","yoyPctChange":-3.8},{"item":"Bread rolls (white or brown)","avgPrice":1.08,"unit":"pack of 6","yoyPctChange":-1.8},{"item":"Breakfast cereal (gluten free)","avgPrice":2.66,"unit":"each","yoyPctChange":3.9},{"item":"Breakfast cereal (low-sugar/non-chocolate coated)","avgPrice":2.37,"unit":"each","yoyPctChange":2.6},{"item":"Breakfast cereal (sugar/chocolate coated)","avgPrice":2.84,"unit":"each","yoyPctChange":3.6},{"item":"Cereal bar","avgPrice":0.34,"unit":"one bar","yoyPctChange":0},{"item":"Chilled garlic bread","avgPrice":1.09,"unit":"each","yoyPctChange":4.8},{"item":"Couscous","avgPrice":0.95,"unit":"100-500g","yoyPctChange":0}],"notice":"sampleRows is a verbatim sample, not the full snapshot. Open data re-published by GeraEats; cite the original publisher above."}