Fanta makes major change to popular drink – and it’s bad news for shoppers
FANTA has made a huge change to one of its fizzy drink favourites - and it's bad news for shoppers.
Drinks giant Coca-Cola has increased the price of a 2l bottle of Fanta by 19p, according to .
In March 2022, a 2l bottle of Fanta Orange cost an average of £1.92 but a bottle will now set you back around £2.11, the data shows.
This is an average increase of around 9.9%, despite its recipe remaining unchanged.
Coca-Cola told The Sun that the last recipe change took place in 2016, when the sugar content was reduced from 6.9 g per 100 ml to 4.6 g per 100ml.
But Coca-Cola isn't the only company hiking its prices.
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Food inflation shot up to 17.1 per cent in February and supermarket prices are now the second biggest worry for people, after soaring energy bills, according to Kantar.
Cadbury has made its sharing bags of Dairy Milk Chocolate Buttons smaller, but kept the price the same.
Previously the chocs weighed in at 240g and cost £2 at Asda and Tesco.
But a new size is just 184.4g and will still set you back the same amount at the supermarkets.
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The Sun previously revealed the confectionary company shrunk the size of its chocolate Easter eggs too.
The move is known as "shrinkflation", which is when a product get smaller but the price doesn't change.
The tactic is used by companies to avoid putting prices up, and often shoppers don't realise they are getting less.
Pouches of popular supermarket item Ben's original rice have shrunk from 250g to 220g in recent months.
Mars, which manufactures the rice, said it had made the product smaller due to "significant cost increases".
Other products including beer have shrunk in size in recent months without a change in price either.
Meanwhile, Coca-Cola has changed the recipe of its Sprite lemon and lime original and sugar free drinks along with new packaging.
Lilt lovers were left bitterly disappointed to discover that the iconic fizzy drink is being discontinued after 50 years.
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