Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Morrisons have started rationing the amount of cooking oil customers can buy due to major shortages from Ukraine. The supermarkets have said shoppers can only buy two bottles at a time.
Ukraine is the largest exporter of sunflower oil in the world, and serves a huge portion of the British market. Alongside Russia, the nations produce approximately 80 per cent of the global supply. However, logistical disruptions from the Black Sea, following Vladimir Putin's invasion, have disrupted trade. The knock-on effect has been a shortage in all cooking oil, with shoppers resorting to alternatives.
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