{"id":594930,"date":"2025-11-26T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/594930\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T12:00:14","slug":"chocolate-prices-soar-21-in-germany-as-christmas-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/594930\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate prices soar 21% in Germany as Christmas approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Germans are having to pay more for chocolate, cookies, and other traditional treats in the run-up to Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Federal Statistical Office reported on Wednesday that chocolate prices were up by an average of 21% in October 2025 compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Prices for chocolate bars and other chocolate products climbed by 16% within a year. In October, pralines cost 22.1% more than a year earlier. In contrast, the prices for biscuits rose comparatively moderately, by just 1.7%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">By way of comparison, consumer prices in Germany rose by 2.3% overall during the same period, while food prices rose by 1.3%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">However, some products made without chocolate were actually cheaper in October 2025 than they had been a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For example, gummy bears, chewing gum and similar products were 2.8% cheaper than in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is also cheaper to choose healthier options, with apples only 0.2% more expensive than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One reason why chocolate treats have become more expensive is the increasing prices for important ingredients such as cocoa and sugar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The price of cocoa, for example, rose to a record high in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Manufacturers are passing this on to their customers, and also point to the high costs of labour, energy and transport in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germans are having to pay more for chocolate, cookies, and other traditional treats in the run-up to Christmas.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[187036,187038,187037,2000,299,81454,21508,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-594930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-chocolate-bars","9":"tag-chocolate-products","10":"tag-chocolate-treats","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-federal-statistical-office","14":"tag-food-prices","15":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}