Food Inflation Hits Everything From Mayonnaise to Tofu

Tofu production in Le Mans, France.

Photographer: Jean-Francois Monier/AFP/Getty Images

Inflation has been the watchword of recent months, and that’s no different in the food world.

Price pressures continue to build across the supply chain as drought threatens key North American crops. That’s at a time when inventories are low, depleted after China went on a buying spree for agricultural imports earlier this year.