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Price of meat substitutes compared with meat in Germany and Spain (Siegrist et al. 2024)

How the price of meat substitutes compares with conventional meat of the same kind (minced meat with minced meat, deli meat with deli meat), as the ratio of their prices per kilogram in supermarket web shops in August and September 2023: 1 means the same price. Siegrist and colleagues (2024) state it for Germany and Spain; across France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom they give only a range, quoted in the notes.

Latest value

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Germany (one retailer) and Spain (two retailers): web shops of major supermarket chains, August 2023–September 2023. Version Food Research International 197, 115213 (2024).

As published

“On average, meat substitutes were found to be 24 to 115 % more expensive compared to conventional meat, except for the German samples where price parity has been reached.”

Prices of meat substitutes relative to meat in six European countries (Siegrist et al. 2024), Abstract, p. 1. Checked word for word against the stored copy of the document every time the data is rebuilt.

Where it comes from

Producer
Armin Siegrist, Ashley Green, Fabienne Michel and Alexander Mathys (ETH Zurich); published in Food Research International (Elsevier) · Prices of meat substitutes relative to meat in six European countries (Siegrist et al. 2024)
Version
Food Research International 197, 115213 (2024)
File
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/server/api/core/bitstreams/f05ee96a-2609-4502-8e74-a2e94de5e534/content
Fetched
2026-10-08 (by a person), 6,294,590 bytes
Fingerprint
sha256 255165bb02a3ca5169e6b607994d587c2e6255d6aca797eead239efe8403831e
Copies
No Wayback copy recorded yet.Our copy of the exact file
Cite the producer
Siegrist, A., Green, A., Michel, F. & Mathys, A. (2024). Comparing the nutritional value and prices of meat and milk substitutes with their animal-based benchmarks across six European countries. Food Research International 197, 115213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodres.2024.115213

What was done to it

  1. Read the text of the version-of-record PDF from the ETH Zurich Research Collection (sha256 255165bb02a3…, one download recorded by hand because the repository's cover page changes with every download) and found 6 passages from the abstract, the methods and the results word for word on their pages.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/green_premium/meat_siegrist_2024.py · code sha256 b0cab8cf01645d61… · inputs 255165bb02a3…

  2. Published the two price ratios of meat substitutes to conventional meat that the results state for one country each (Germany and Spain), exactly as printed.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/green_premium/meat_siegrist_2024.py · code sha256 b0cab8cf01645d61… · inputs 255165bb02a3…

  3. Did not publish the ranges stated for several countries at once (the abstract's '24 to 115 %' and 'between 1.24 and 1.46' for France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom); they are quoted in each value's note.

    Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/green_premium/meat_siegrist_2024.py · code sha256 b0cab8cf01645d61… · inputs 255165bb02a3…

What it covers

Geography
Germany (one retailer) and Spain (two retailers): web shops of major supermarket chains
Basis
Prices of substitutes collected in August 2023 and of conventional products in September 2023. The ratio is averaged within each product category, then weighted by the number of substitute products in each category.
Unit
price per kilogram of meat substitutes divided by that of conventional meat (ratio)