India Food Stats

The Price Monitoring Division of the Department of Consumer Affairs tracks retail and wholesale prices of the following 40 essential commodities   from 577 monitoring centres across India  (as of 17-Feb-2026)  - Rice Wheat Atta (Wheat) Gram Dal(Bharat Dal Adjusted), Gram Dal Tur / Arhar Dal Urad Dal Moong Dal Masoor Dal Sugar Milk  Groundnut Oil  Mustard Oil  Vanaspati  Soya Oil  Sunflower Oil Palm Oil  Gur Tea Loose Salt (Iodised) Potato Onion Tomato Bajra (whole) Jowar (whole) Maida (wheat) Ragi (whole) Suji (whole) Besan Desi Ghee Butter (Pasteurised) Eggs Brinjal Black Pepper (whole) Coriander (whole) Cummin Seed (whole) Red Chillies (whole) Turmeric (powder) Banana Ginger  Garlic The Food Commodity Price Dashboard , created by IndiaSpend.com, monitors daily retail prices of 22 key food commodities across States & UTs of India  and presents it through charts for easy understanding. IndiaSpend automatically fetches and proces...

As e-commerce and Quick commerce promising fast deliveries and competitive prices become more popular, consumers now have to decide where to get it from. The following websites let you compare prices - *  Quickcompare.in  launched in 2025 allows you to compare prices across various Quick Commerce services such as Zepto, Swiggy, Blinkit, DMart, JioMart, and bbNow. * The Price History website lets you check price history charts & track prices for not just food products but also other items sold on popular ecommerce sites . *  Open Prices is a project to collect and share prices of products around the world. Rather than scraping prices from retailers' websites, prices are crowd-sourced. As of March 2025, the dataset had product prices for 80 food products from India . It's a publicly available dataset that can be used for research, analysis, and more. Open Prices is developed and maintained by Open Food Facts.  * Google has a Price History feature that shows pric...

Inflation, an essential indicator of economic health, measures changes in general price levels and the cost of living. India uses the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for this purpose. CPI is calculated using the price data of 299 items which are classified into 6 main groups of varying weights. CPI is published monthly by the National Statistical Office (NSO). The Food and Beverage category makes up 45.86% of the current CPI basket. Consumer food price index (CFPI) reflects inflation in prices of foods. Consumer Food Price Index has been higher than Consumer Price Index in 2024.  Chart source - Times of India Vegetables hold a 6.04% weight in the CPI basket, yet their contribution to inflation reached 30% in early 2024. Source: ICRA Among vegetables, tomato, onion, and potato (TOP) collectively hold a 2.2% weight. The inflation rates for these three commodities have been volatile, ranging from -36.6% to 132.0%. This volatility underlines the need for targeted policy interventions a...