Glutinous rice, red dates, red beans rise in price, zongzi price rises 10%
May 14th news (reporter Liu Hongjie) from the Dragon Boat Festival still more than a month, the dumplings market has been preheated in advance. Because of the rising prices of main raw materials such as glutinous rice, red dates and red beans, zongzi is generally 10% more expensive this year than last year.
the reporter saw in some big supermarkets in the provincial capital, the frozen zongzi of each brand has come up, the taste is mainly traditional jujube, eight treasures, bean sand, chestnut, and so on, the price ranges from six or seven yuan to tens of yuan. Many brands of zongzi have gone up. Supermarket salesmen told reporters that the price of a dumpling sold for 13 yuan, up 2.6 yuan over the same period last year, and that of another meat stuffed dumpling rose by 2.8 yuan. A sweet zongzi has also risen 2.1 yuan. "Rice is too expensive this year. Red dates and red beans are rising and cost is rising." The salesman said.
He Huajun, general manager of Ji'nan rice Park Food Co., Ltd., said that as the main raw material for making zongzi, the price of glutinous rice, stuffing raw materials, especially all kinds of beans, is rising obviously, and the dumplings also have a certain increase in price. At the same time, zongzi is hand-made, and this year's labor cost has risen by about 10%. Under the combined influence of various factors, the price of zongzi this year is as high as 10 percentage points higher than that of last year.