Supermarkets are limiting the amount of cooking oil people can buy as the Ukraine war leads to shortages and surging prices

Supermarkets are limiting the amount of cooking oil people can buy as the Ukraine war leads to shortages and surging prices

A growing number of supermarkets are limiting how much cooking oil shoppers can buy because the Ukraine war has led to shortages, multiple reports say. Russia on February 24 after building up a military presence on the Ukraine border following months of that the conflict would escalate. The war is causing a disruption of harvests, meaning there is limited supply of sunflower oil. Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil supplier, this week on the key cooking oil ingredient, RBD Palm Oil. UK supermarket Tesco is introducing a three-bottle limit, while Morrisons told Insider it has a "max cap" of two bottles of cooking oil. Waitrose is also capping purchases to two bottles, Greek supermarket has also introduced a three-bottle limit for sunflower oil in the past few weeks, reported. Belgian supermarket chain Colruyt will only allow customers to buy a maximum of two litres of cooking oil, according to the . Insider was unable to contact AB and Colruyt for comment. Ukraine and Russia supply the majority of the UK's sunflower oil and some food companies are experiencing "severe difficulties" in obtaining it, the British Food Standards Agency (FSA) said in a in March. "Food businesses are reporting that UK