Cuban families are currently suffering from a complex socioeconomic crisis characterized by widespread shortages of food and essential products; and hit by a suffocating inflation.
Periodically the publication 14yMedio publishes a report on the prices of various foods in various Cuban markets for reference. These are today the prices of some of the essential foods in different territories of the island:
Meats and derived products
- Chicken package (10 pounds): 3400 CUP (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- Chicken mince: 280 CUP (mipyme Rápido SRL, 04/27/2024)
- Chicken: 380 CUP per pound (mipyme Rápido SRL, 05/29/2024)
- Pork with bone: 650 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- pork rib: 590 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- Sheep meat: 500 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- pork liver: 350 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Lard: 550 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Viking ham: 500 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- White cheese: 550 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- Melted cheese: 420 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- Bacon: 500 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
Eggs and dairy
- Eggs (carton): 3000 CUP (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Quail eggs (unit): 600 CUP (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
Grains and legumes
- black beans: 350 CUP per pound (19 and B, 05/24/2024), 450 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 06/01/2024), 280 CUP per pound (Los Pilongos, 04/25/2024)
- Red beans: 400 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 06/01/2024), 300 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- White beans: 250 CUP per pound (Los Chinos Fair, 04/27/2024)
- Chickpeas: 400 CUP per pound (EJT 17 and K, 05/29/2024), 450 CUP per pound (Feria Los Chinos, 04/27/2024), 350 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- peas: 320 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024), 170 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 05/23/2024)
- Rice: 200 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 05/25/2024), 220 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Cornmeal: 120 CUP per pound (Los Pilongos, 05/23/2024), 110 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
Fruits and vegetables
- Donkey banana: 150 CUP per pound (19 and B, 06/04/2024), 50 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 05/25/2024), 15 CUP per pound (Los Pilongos, 04/25/2024)
- Lemon: 180 CUP per pound (EJT 17 and K, 06/04/2024), 100 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- Melon: 70 CUP per pound (19 and B, 05/24/2024), 50 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- Mango: 50 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024), 30 CUP per pound (EJT 17 and K, 05/23/2024)
- Passion fruit: 200 CUP per unit (19 and B, 06/04/2024)
- Avocado: 200 CUP per unit (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- Guava: 50 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 06/01/2024), 100 CUP per pound (Los Chinos Fair, 04/27/2024)
- Pumpkin: 30 CUP per pound (Los Pilongos, 06/03/2024), 50 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 06/01/2024)
- Sweet Potato: 50 CUP per pound (Buen Viaje, 05/23/2024), 30 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Yucca: 65 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 06/01/2024), 50 CUP per pound (Los Pilongos, 04/25/2024)
- Cucumber: 70 CUP per pound (La Calzada, 05/23/2024), 20 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Dad: 180 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024), 80 CUP per pound (Los Chinos Fair, 04/27/2024)
- Purple Onion: 300 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024), 190 CUP per pound (EJT 17 and K, 05/24/2024)
- Beet: 70 CUP per pound (EJT 17 and K, 05/23/2024), 120 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Radish: 150 CUP per pound (19 and B, 05/23/2024)
Basic products and condiments
- Oil: 1345 CUP per liter (mipyme Rápido SRL, 06/04/2024), 1400 CUP per liter (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- White sugar: 135 CUP per pound (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Sausage (package): 550 CUP (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- garlic string: 1800 CUP (La Plaza Boulevard, 05/25/2024)
- garlic joint: 50 CUP per deck (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
- Cilantro: 15 CUP per deck (La Plaza Boulevard, 04/27/2024)
As you can see, the cost of food in Cuba continues to increase, along with the shortage of basic products, significantly impacting the cost of living.
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