Shoppers have seen the price of local fruit and veg skyrocket, but canned produce remains relatively cheap. One expert says there are several worrying reasons for this.
Anthea Gaffney insists on buying fresh fruit and vegetables for her two kids, but she's started to feel the pinch at the check-out.
"It's something I wouldn't have considered previously, but with the cost of living crisis that we're seeing through the media day in, day out, everything's going up." Dr Lyons said costs had increased roughly 30-to-60 per cent in the past five years, largely due to fuel and stronger industrial relations laws.
Dr Lyons said Australians threw away so much food that it would take an area the size of Victoria to grow it all.A comparison by ABC Radio Brisbane Afternoons host Kat Feeney found fresh tomatoes at Woolworths were more than twice as expensive as tinned tomatoes.
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