Shortage Of Sunflower Oil in The UK

Russia and Ukraine account for 80% of the global sunflower oil supply, and the conflict between these two countries has greatly disrupted trade in sunflower oil. According to a report by the British Sky News Network on the 4th, in the United Kingdom, the supply of sunflower oil is facing disruptions. In addition, it is now the sunflower planting season, and the conflict has prevented crops from being cultivated in time, so Ukrainian farmers were unable to harvest sunflower seeds and extract oil in the fall. Some practitioners said that the shortage of sunflower oil in the UK cannot be solved in the short term and the shortage of sunflower oil is expected to continue for longer.

According to reports, sunflower oil is the most used cooking oil by UK consumers, and sales of sunflower oil account for nearly half of all cooking oil sales in the country. Based on a statement from the UK Food Standards Agency, most of the UK's domestic sunflower oil comes from Ukraine. Due to the current Russian-Ukrainian conflict, UK sunflower oil supplies may be depleted in the next few weeks, which has already caused commercial production serious impact. In response to the shortage of sunflower oil, some food manufacturers in the UK are studying to change the formula to replace sunflower oil with rapeseed oil, and the price of rapeseed oil has risen by 50% to 70% accordingly. Moreover, they started looking to import sunflower oil from other countries, such as China.

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