{"id":582001,"date":"2026-04-03T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582001\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T03:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T03:02:08","slug":"portugal-food-prices-increased-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/582001\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal food prices increased again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The food basket monitored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deco.proteste.pt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DECO PROteste<\/a> costs \u20ac254.99 this week, which represents a slight increase of \u20ac0.60 compared to the previous week. Even so, this increase again represents the highest value since the consumer protection organisation began this analysis in 2022,&#8221; it indicated in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of the year, buying this basic basket has cost \u20ac13.17 more.<\/p>\n<p>A year ago, the same purchase cost \u20ac16.49 less, while at the beginning of 2022, it was possible to spend \u20ac67.29 less.<\/p>\n<p>The food basket includes meats, frozen foods, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, groceries, and fish.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, products such as turkey, chicken, mackerel, hake, onions, potatoes, carrots, bananas, apples, oranges, rice, spaghetti, sugar, ham, milk, cheese, and butter are considered.<\/p>\n<p>Between 25 March and 1 April, the products whose price increased the most were mackerel (29%), plum tomatoes (24%), and cauliflower (17%).<\/p>\n<p>Since 5 January 2022, when Deco began this monitoring, the largest percentage increases have been recorded in beef for cooking (124%), cabbage (109%), and eggs (84%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The food basket monitored by DECO PROteste costs \u20ac254.99 this week, which represents a slight increase of \u20ac0.60&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-582001","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}