The sunflower oil crisis hits manufacturers: “My cost prices have exploded by 20 to 30%”

Not far from her home, in Belgium, colleagues had their oil stolen… This misadventure did not happen to Nadine Porras, the manager of “Snack é Frites”, in the Ardennes, but the current crisis is hitting her hard. . Since the start of the war in Ukraine, a major producing country, sunflower oil has become scarce. Nadine hasn’t been able to find frying oil at Metro for two weeks now, and Promocash limits purchases to one 10-litre container per checkout. Prices, above all, have jumped. “We went from 23.40 euros for 10 liters in February, to 38.90 euros today! grumbles the one who mainly uses this oil for the meat of her hamburgers.