2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The National Statistical Institute reported a 0.4 percent rise in food prices over the past month. Soft drink prices were also higher in April.
According to the data of the institute, the alcoholic beverages have higher prices, which have jumped by 0.1% in one month.
Among the foods that rose in price in April were cabbage, which were 28.6% higher, tomatoes, which were 10.5% more expensive, apples, which were 7.8% higher, and citrus fruits, which were 28.6% higher. 6.2%.
The results show that the cheapest food for April are cucumbers, whose prices fell by 25.9%.
Although we have been eating more and more expensive fruits and vegetables in the last month, Lazarina Gerova, an expert from a private laboratory for food contamination research, says that most of them are not safe for consumption.
"In greenhouse conditions, more nitrates accumulate because there is no sun," Gerova commented.
According to her, even fresh salad contains large amounts of nitrates, which do not last long and kill the beneficial properties of vegetables.
According to Lazarina Gerova, many of the fruits and vegetables in the domestic markets contain dangerously high amounts of nitrates.
"Even in summer - up to 400 grams can reach nitrates in salads, zucchini, fresh garlic and onions, carrots, fresh potatoes - all products that grow close to the ground or underground, are risky," - said the expert.
The opposite opinion is shared by the representative of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency - Nikolay Rosnev, who reports that the state control system manages to stop most of the harmful products before they reach the consumer.
Hristo Panayotov, who is the executive director of the vegetable market in Parvenets, said on the other hand that the spring fruits were wasted due to the rains.
Most of the native cherries and strawberries are cracked, but there are still Romanian producers who buy them.
The prices of strawberries this year are between BGN 2.20 and BGN 3.50 per kilogram, and of cherries - between BGN 2 and 4.
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