Indulge Your Sweet Tooth Beyond Easter to Fight Inflation
Easter celebrations are the perfect excuse to feast on chocolate. Longer term, shoppers with a sweet tooth might find the habit more affordable than what savory snackers encounter.
Cocoa, the main raw material for chocolate, is one of the few food commodities slightly cheaper today than before Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine. A metric ton of cocoa currently costs $2,483.27, down from $2,489.84 on the day the conflict began, data from the agricultural analytics firm AgFlow shows. By comparison, the threat of grain shortfalls as a result of the fighting has sent prices of staple crops such as corn soaring.
