Meat

Souvlaki, the traditional Greek fast food popular among locals and visitors alike, will soon suffer a 10-15 percent price hike, kebab shop owners are warning.

The reason for this sudden increase - which could take prices up to 3 euros per pitta-wrapped kebab - is the significant rise in the price of pork, which the meat industries and kebab shop owners can no longer absorb.

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BFSA) will carry out extra inspections across the country ahead of Easter and St. George's Day holidays, said the Agency.

Our country ranks at the bottom of the EU by the amount of fruit and vegetables consumed, according to data from Eurostat's analysis of the consumption of these products in the EU countries in 2017.
 
Only about 37 percent of Bulgarians consume fruits every day, and 45 percent of our compatriots eat vegetables on a daily basis, according to European statistics.

The European Union has produced 15.2 million tonnes of poultry meat in 2018, a new historic highlight. This represents a cumulative increase of about a quarter or 3.2 million tonnes since 2010, Eurostat data show.

Quinoa and kale may now come with a side of fermented shark, reported CNN. 

The Disgusting Food Museum, which made headlines when it opened in Malmo, Sweden, in November 2018, is traveling somewhere warm for the winter -- specfically, to Los Angeles.

The bloc may still be beset with divisions but our car-crash departure has clarified one area of unity among the EU27, The Times reports.

Out of 10 countries, a Bulgarian won the world's pizza competition in Porto, NOVA reported.

Minister of Agriculture and Food Rumen Porozhanov will open a round table launching a campaign to support Bulgarian food producers, reported the Bulgarian National Television. 

Data show that only in the first eight months of 2018 the growth in the production of meat and dairy products in our country is between 10 and 20 per cent.

Turkey's red meat production rose 0.4 percent to 339,379 tons in the third quarter of the current year, compared with the same period last year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced on Nov. 12.

An increasing number of customers prefer to buy offal, which is a much cheaper form of red meat, shopkeepers at the Butcher's Market in Turkey's southern province of Adana have said.