Asda removed its limit of three on cucumbers, lettuce, salad bags, broccoli, cauliflower and raspberries - but has left restrictions on tomatoes and peppers. Morrisons also removed its restriction on cucumbers, but kept its limit of two items per customer on tomatoes, lettuce and peppers.
Some supermarkets have begun to drop customer limits on certain fresh fruit and vegetables as supply issues begin to ease.
The supermarket said availability had improved as expected, and supplies of tomatoes and peppers were also expected to return to normal within a couple of weeks. The shortage soon began affecting other products, leaving shelves without a number of fresh produce items such as cucumbers, peppers and lettuces.Sky News has contacted Tesco, Aldi, and Lidl for comment.Unusually cold night-time temperatures affected tomato ripening in Morocco in January, with growers and suppliers also having to contend with heavy rain, flooding and cancelled ferries - all of which affected the volume of fruit reaching Britain.
Producers locally also reported having to cut back on their use of greenhouses due to higher electricity prices.instead of imported food when asked about the shortages, leading to mocking headlines like:"Let them eat turnips".if the government does not secure domestic supplies.
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