Healthy eating is getting pricier in NZ

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The cost of sweetened foods has been decreasing relative to the costs of fruit, vegetables, meat, and dairy in Aotearoa. Researchers at Lincoln University studied the changing prices of food over nine years, based on Statistics NZ data covering 560 retail outlets. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a particularly steep increase in the relative costs of fruit and vegetables, while both the real and relative prices of sweetened foods have dropped.