22% more expensive ice creams, the highest prices in Florence

Enjoying an ice cream this summer will cost more throughout Italy: The data of the Non-profit Consumerism association, according to which the average price of ice cream in May increased by 22% compared to last year. The cause is in the increase in the price of raw materials. The trend of price lists recorded throughout the territory, underlines the association, is extremely diversified: ranging from the highest peaks recorded in Florence, while Padua, Vicenza and Siena have the lowest prices. Florence is the city with the highest price in Italy, equal on average to 7.93 euros per kg (but can reach peaks of 9.66 euros / kg), with an increase of + 34% compared to last year, when 5.91 euros were spent on the same amount of ice cream. In Italy, Bolzano (7.7 euros), Ravenna (20.7 euros) and Milan (09.7 euros) boast prices above 01 euros per kg.

The cheapest cities, where ice cream costs less than 5 euros per kg, are Padua (with an average of 4.55 euros), Siena and Vicenza (4.68 euros). "The average price of ice cream - says the president of Consumerismo No profit, Luigi Gabriele - recorded in Italy in May an average increase of + 22% compared to the same period of 2022. To weigh on the price lists of this product is the increase in the costs of raw materials, from eggs to sugar to fruit, but also the expensive energy that determines an increase in production costs. To grow are both the prices of ice cream in tubs sold at supermarkets, and packaged products that can be found in bars, but also cones and cups of ice cream parlors are undergoing significant price increases, to the point that in Rome a small cone with two flavors exceeds even 4 euros in the most tourist areas ".