Yes, food inflation has gone up - it's at 4.5%.
But the thing about food inflation - well all inflation I suppose - it that it's measured year on year. So that's 4.5% since this time last year.
That's bad enough but what it hides is how much it has rocketed recently. For this you can look at what food inflation was as recently as March, when -year on year - it was 2.4%. Which means they really have soared since then.
Which is unsurprising - given the increase in national insurance and the increase in minimum wage, and soon we'll take another hit when the costs of the enhanced employment rights comes in and feeds through and all this alongside the other unavoidable costs like the increase in fuel and production issues in the face of weather shit.