Real truth about the prices of food in Serbia and Europe: What is more expensive, and what is cheaper?

Statistics keep ensuring us that food in Serbia is cheaper than the food in the region, but when we look at the prices, it doesn't seem so. Some prices are smaller and some are higher compared to the Europe. We decided to compare some of the items people buy the most although the wages in Serbia are up to 10 times smaller than some European countries.

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Some market research shows that the same groceries in Belgrade, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Berlin, and Brussels do not deviate from each other, especially when it comes to trademarks. Half a kilogram of margarine can be bought for one euro in Slovenia (120 dinars), and for 99 dinars in Serbia. A similar price is for daily milk, milk chocolate or eggs in Slovenia, Germany and the Serbian market.

We are somewhat cheaper. Basic grocery - bread: It costs from 0.5 euros to 1 euro (60-120 dinars) in Greece, from 0.79 pounds in Britain (103.7 dinars), while it costs 46 dinars and more in Serbia (around 40 cents).

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A pack of 10 eggs of B class, regardless of the manufacturer, costs 1.5 euros (180 dinars), while in Aldi in Britain, the price is 1.89 euros (227 dinars). The kilogram of chicken in the same market costs 3.29 euros (395 dinars) while the price in Serbia is 2.41 euros (290 dinars).

However, the difference in prices of those less essential items is substantial.

Butter is much more expensive in the domestic retail chains, so the package of 250 grams of Alpenbutter company Meggle is 3.2 euros (385) dinars, while in Germany 1,99 euros (235 dinars).

Expensive brands usually mean higher prices here, so "Nutella" cream, "Nes" coffee, cream "Rio Mare" are more expensive in our shop than in European. Milka chocolate of 100 grams can be bought for 89 cents, and it costs 112 to 152 dinars here.

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Fruit yogurt in the German chain on discount is currently 33 cents (39) dinars, half a kilo of Jakob's coffee is 3.69 euros, 250g of butter is 1.11 euros, one liter of juice from forest fruits or orange is 99 cents.

The syrup of that rank and taste in home markets is 189.99, fruit yogurt is 43 to 55 dinars, 200 grams of Jacob's coffee is 684 dinars.

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The price of lemon in Europe has gone "sky high". Most of the European countries are importing it from Argentina, so the price is almost the same everywhere. The kilo of this fruit in markets is up to 250 dinars, while the European average is between 1.65 and 2.59 euros (198-310 dinars).

Therefore, according to the research of "Kamatica" portal for the purchase of food products, the citizens of Serbia allocate more than 43 percent of monthly income. At the same time, our Croat neighbors need a third of their salaries per month or about 30 percent of their salaries, Slovenians just under a quarter, and between 15 and 20 percent of monthly income in developed European countries.

(Telegraf.co.uk / S.V)