the breakfast tray is getting more and more expensive

Whether it’s pain au chocolat, bread, coffee or orange juice, all have been impacted by inflation. Among the breakfast staples that have been hit the hardest is bread first, which has suffered a price hike driven by poorer harvests. The fault of the climate, too hot in the United States and too rainy in Europe, which led to an explosion in the price of a ton of wheat which now sells for 300 euros, against “250 only six months ago“, “unheard of for more than ten years“, specifies the journalist on the set of 23h of Monday, January 31.

And the climate is also partly responsible for the increase in the price of coffee. “But the sector has also been a victim of the paralysis of transport caused by the health crisis.“, adds Dorothée Lachaud. Thus, the price of arabica rose by 70% and that of robusta by 90%. Finally, the price of orange juice jumped due to the yellow dragon disease, which attacked the citrus fruits of Florida (United States) hit hard, causing the price of orange juice to jump by half.