CEREALS
Long grain, polished, white rice, sold loose or packaged.
Excluded: Pre-cooked, parboiled and any flavoured type.All-purpose white wheat flour, in most commonly sold packaging, may be vitamin enriched.
Excluded: Self-raising types.Wheat flour containing the whole grain including bran, sold loose or packaged.Maize flour, yellow or white, sold loose or packaged.5 Corn (maize), whole grain 1 kg
Dried whole grain yellow corn removed from the cob, suitable for boiling, grinding or other treatment, sold loose or packaged.Quick-cooking rolled oats, in most commonly sold packaging.
Excluded: Rolled oats ready to eat without being cooked, instant and varieties containing fruit.Wheat for preparing couscous, sold loose or packaged.Whole grain of sorghum, sold loose.(a) white, sliced, wrapped 500 g
Pan-type loaf for toast or sandwiches, prepared from white wheat flour, wrapped and sliced. If sliced is not usually sold, price unsliced and specify.(b) white, unsliced, not wrapped 500 g
Ordinary bread, prepared from 100 per cent white wheat flour, most commonly sold variety, fresh, unsliced, not wrapped.
Excluded: French "baguette" type.(c) "baguette" type 250 g
French "baguette" type prepared from 100 per cent white wheat flour, fresh, unsliced, not wrapped.
Excluded: Specially flavoured types and those with seeds (such as sesame) on top.(d) other 500 g
Ordinary bread, prepared from 100 per cent wheat flour, most commonly sold variety.Pan-type loaf made entirely or principally from rye flour, unsliced, not wrapped.
Excluded: Spiced varieties.11 Tortillas (corn cakes) 1 kg
Tortillas made from 100 per cent corn (maize) flour and water, may contain additives but no raising agent, requiring heating or cooking. Sold in units such as packages of 10 or in bulk, fresh or frozen.12 Dry biscuits (cookies) 250 g
Simple plain biscuits made from butter, flour and sugar, without frosting (icing) or filling.
Excluded: Tinned biscuits, chocolate varieties, fancy shapes and wrappings, shortbread and speciality types. Crackers and any other varieties without sugar.Regular corn flakes.
Excluded: Sugar coated and sweetened varieties and those with raisins.Pre-cooked flour-based baby cereal, in carton; may have vitamins added, cooking not required.Spaghetti made from hard grains of wheat meal (semolina) without eggs, in package.
Excluded: Very thin spaghetti (vermicelli), varieties containing eggs, made from other than wheat flour.
MEAT, POULTRY, FISH
Cut of section of hind area, (silverside, gîte à la noix), trimmed, without bone, fresh, sold as a roast, steak or in pieces.Stewing beef cut in cubes or strips from various portions of the carcass, without bone, fresh.
Excluded: Minced and ground beef.Fresh beef, any cut, without offal:
Excluded: Minced and ground beef.(a) with bone 1 kg
(b) without bone 1 kg
Corned beef in tin.Cut of section of hind leg area (comparable to round of beef), trimmed, without bone, fresh, sold as a roast.
Excluded: Very thin "scallopini" type cutlets.Leg of lamb, hindquarters, with bone (with lower part of bone removed if most representative of type offered for sale). Price fresh or frozen, whichever most commonly sold, and specify.Stewing mutton cut in cubes or strips from various portions of the carcass, fresh, may contain small bone portions.
Excluded: Lamb if priced differently from mutton.Cut from centre of loin, with bone, fresh.Fresh pork, any cut, without offal:
Excluded: Minced and ground pork(a) with bone a) 1 kg
a) with bone.(b) without bone b) 1 kg
b) without bone.Cooked (boiled) ham without rind or fat, without bone, sliced.
Excluded: Tinned ham.Streaky (side) rashers with low proportion of fat, without rind, sliced, packaged.Whole chicken, cleaned, without head and feet, but may include heart, liver and gizzard. Price fresh or frozen, whichever most commonly sold and specify.Live local chicken, usually purchased in open markets rather than in shops.Whole fresh duck, cleaned, without feathers and entrails.If possible, price the three most commonly sold fish among those listed below and specify those selected. If fish other than those listed are more representative of volume sales, price them instead, and give the local name, a brief description and, if poss ible, the scientific name. May be whole fish or fillets. Bluefish, carp, cod, haddock, hake, herring, mackerel, pike, plaice, pomfret, salmon, sardine, snakehead, sole, trout, tuna, whiting.Frozen cod fillets.
Excluded: Individual portions, and cod in breadcrumbs.32 Sardines, in oil, tinned 110 g
Sardines, headless, with skin, packed in tin with oil. Price the variety most commonly sold.Large pieces of mackerel with most of the skin and bone removed, packed in tin with water.
MILK AND DAIRY PRODUCTS
Fresh cow's milk, containing a minimum butter fat content of 3.3 per cent:(a) pasteurised 1 litre
May be homogenised.
Excluded: Long-life milk and deposit for container, if sold in returnable container.(b) not pasteurised 1 litre
Sold in container or in bulk.
Excluded: Deposit for container if sold in returnable container.Cow's milk in tin or package:(a) whole 500 g
With a minimum butter fat content of 3 per cent.
Excluded: Powdered milk intended solely as infant's food and pre-measured packets.(b) skim (non-fat) 500 g
With butter fat content of less than 1 per cent.
Excluded: Powdered milk intended solely as infant's food and pre-measured packets(a) evaporated, unsweetened 400 g
Tinned, unsweetened evaporated whole milk, may have added vitamins.
Excluded: Sweetened condensed milk.(b) condensed, sweetened 400 g
Tinned, sweetened condensed whole milk, with fat content of 8-9 per cent.
Excluded: Unsweetened evaporated and condensed milk.37 Infant's milk formula, powdered 500 g
Infant formula, sweetened, powdered, intended specifically for use for babies.(a) cheddar 250 g
Pasteurised natural sharp cheddar cheese, a hard cheese made from whole cow's milk, sold packaged or cut from a larger piece.(b) blue 250 g
Semi-soft mould-ripened blue cheese made from cow's or goat's milk (Gorgonzola, Danish blue, etc.), sold loose or packaged. Price most commonly sold type.
Excluded: Roquefort (ewe's milk) cheese an imported item except in France. Sliced and/or vacuum packed blue cheese.(c) other 250 g
Most commonly sold cheese made from milk, locally produced.Fresh butter, salted or unsalted, made from cow's milk, pasteurised.
Excluded: Tinned butter.Ice cream in paper or plastic carton.
Excluded: Products containing less than 10 per cent milk fat ("ice milk") and those containing single serving units.
EGGS
41 Chicken eggs, fresh 12 eggs
Either brown or white, weight per egg approximately 60 grams, may be sold in cartons of 6, 10 or 12 or sold unpackaged.
Excluded: Eggs with cracked or broken shells, and any type of preserved eggs.Average weight per egg approximately 70 grams, packaged or unpackaged.
Excluded: Eggs with cracked or broken shells, and any type of preserved eggs.
FATS AND OILS
100 per cent vegetable margarine made from blended oil.
Excluded: Margarine made from only one oil such as corn or safflower oil, soft margarine and dietetic types.Clarified butter prepared from cow's or buffalo's milk.
Excluded: Vegetable ghee and clarified butter made from milk other than cow's or buffalo's milk.45 Salad or cooking oil 1 litre
Vegetable oil, for salad or cooking purposes. Select, price and specify the most commonly sold type from the following: blended oil, coconut oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, mustard oil, palm oil, peanut oil, safflower oil, sesame oil, sunflower oil, soyabea n oil.
Excluded: Deposit for container if sold in returnable container.100 per cent pure olive oil.
Excluded: Deposit for container if sold in returnable container.Pure lard made from pork fat, no additives and not mixed with fat from any other animal.
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
Price most commonly sold variety. If only mandarine or tangerine types available, price and specify.Yellow lemons, any variety.Fresh, ripe, yellow bananas.
Excluded: Plantains and similar varieties used primarily as a vegetable.(a) fresh 1 kg
Whole fresh pineapple.(b) tinned 822 g net weight
Tinned pineapple, sliced, packed in sugar syrup.
Excluded: Crushed and chunks of pineapple.All-purpose eating apples, medium size
Excluded: Apples used primarily for cooking and small sized apples.Fresh green to white grapes, thick skinned with seeds.
Excluded: Wine grapes, seedless grapes, and purple grapes.Fresh round or oval shaped ripe papayas.
Excluded: Unripe papayas for cooking.Fresh, whole, ripe mangoes, primarily for eating.
Excluded: Varieties used for jam, chutney, etc.Fresh whole coconut with shell but without outer husk.
Excluded: Green or unripe coconut.(a) in shells 500 g
Roasted peanuts, in shells, sold loose.
Excluded: Green or unroasted peanuts.(b) without shells 100 g
Roasted peanuts, salted, whole kernels without skin, sold loose or packaged.
Excluded: Roasted peanuts mixed with other nuts, and vacuum packed peanuts.Potatoes, any variety, including red skinned potatoes if interior is white.
Excluded: Sweet potatoes and yams.Common cooking onions, medium size, any variety.
Excluded: Green onions.Fresh carrots, medium size, without tops, any variety, sold loose or in bag.Green to white or red head of cabbage.Fresh Chinese cabbage, conical in shape, with pale green leaves and white bottom, sold wrapped or unwrapped.Fresh, firm, ripe tomatoes suitable for slicing, sold loose or in package.
Excluded: Cherry tomatoes, green tomatoes.Tomato purée (paste) in tin, used as spice or flavouring.Packaged frozen spinach, any variety.66 Egg-plants (aubergines) 1 kg
Fresh egg-plants, medium size, any variety.Fresh, dark green, sweet peppers, medium size; hollow interior which contains small white seeds.
Excluded: Hot (piquant, chilli type) peppers.Dried whole red chillies, cone shaped, approximately ten centimeters in length.
Excluded: Fresh chillies, green chillies and chilli powder.Fresh, green plantains for cooking, sold loose.70 Okra (ladies' fingers, gombo) 1 kg
Fresh whole okra, light to dark green in colour, medium size.71 Haricot beans, white, dried 1 kg
Dried white haricots beans, sold loose or packaged.
Excluded: Lima beans, kidney beans and butter beans.72 Soya bean sprouts (shoots) 1 kg
Freshly sprouted soya beans, white, pale green or yellow in colour.Dried whole moong beans, outer skin intact. (Also known as mung, golden gram, black gram, green gram and surd).Fresh bean curd made from puréed soya beans, water and salt, and formed into cakes, sold loose or packaged.Dried chick-peas, sold loose or packaged.
Excluded: Split peas and tinned chick-peas.76 Split peas (gram dal), dried 1 kg
Dried yellow split peas, sold loose or packaged.
Excluded: Chick-peas.77 Soup mix, vegetable, dry 80 g
Vegetable soup mix, dry, powdered, in packet, sufficient for preparing 4 servings.
Excluded: Soups with meat.78 Infant's food, vegetable based 200 g
Infant's food in glass jar or tin. Any vegetable or combination of vegetables. For babies over 3 months old ("junior food").
Excluded: Varieties containing meat.
STARCHY ROOTS AND TUBERS
Fresh cassava sold as tubers, loose.Fresh sweet potatoes, sold loose.Fresh yams sold as tubers, loose.
SUGAR
White cane or beet sugar, sold loose or packaged.
Excluded: Icing sugar.
NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Roasted coffee, whole bean or ground, most commonly sold variety, sold loose or packaged.
Excluded: Decaffeinated coffee.Soluble instant coffee sold in glass jar or tin.
Excluded: Individual serving packets and decaffeinated coffee.Good quality blend of black tea, most commonly sold variety, sold loose or packaged or in tea bags.Green tea in leaf form, any variety, sold loose or packaged.
Excluded: Tea bags, powdered tea and any variety of black tea.87 Green mint infusion (mint tea) 100 g
Green mint for making mint infusion, sold loose, packaged or in bags.Non-alcoholic drink of local production, may be sold in returnable bottle, non-returnable bottle or can.
Excluded: Sugar-free and diet varieties, and deposit for container if sold in returnable container.
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Standard quality domestic red table wine, usually dry, alcohol content 10 to 14 per cent. If domestic wine is not commonly sold price imported red table wine.
Excluded: Sparkling, rosé or pink wines, and deposit for container if sold in returnable container.Domestically produced volume selling beer, alcoholic content 3.2 per cent or more, most commonly sold type, in returnable or non-returnable bottle or can.
Excluded: Deposit for container if sold in returnable container.
MISCELLANEOUS
Coarse or lump (rock) salt, or fine granulated salt.Orange marmalade made from whole sliced oranges, and sugar sold in glass jar, tin or tumbler.
Excluded: Marmalade made from mixed and other fruits.Milk chocolate bar, wrapped
Excluded: Chocolate with fruits, nuts and cereals, and soft centre varieties.