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AS the war in Ukraine pushes up wheat prices and a weaker peso raises the cost of imported edible oil, many Philippine bakers are shrinking the size of a popular breakfast roll to cope with higher inflation.

As the war in Ukraine pushes up wheat prices and a weaker peso raises the cost of imported edible oil, many Philippine bakers are shrinking the size of a popular breakfast roll to cope with higher inflation.

"All of us are struggling, not to make profit, but to survive," said the president of the Philippine Federation of Bakers. "We have to protect the pandesal industry."

"We had to reduce the serving size to survive," Mauleon told AFP, as children, workers and retirees arrived early to buy rolls baked in a brick oven that morning.

As the war in Ukraine pushes up wheat prices and a weaker peso raises the cost of imported edible oil, many Philippine bakers are shrinking the size of a popular breakfast roll to cope with higher inflation.

Pandesal made smaller as Ukraine crisis, weaker peso raises price of wheat and oil

As the war in Ukraine pushes up wheat prices and a weaker peso increases the cost of imported cooking oil, many Filipino bakers are downsizing a popular

As wheat prices rise and a weaker peso hikes the cost of imported edible oil, many Philippine bakers are shrinking the size of a popular breakfast roll to cope with higher inflation. The slightly sweet and pillowy soft pandesal, which Filipinos often dunk in coffee or stuff with cheese, used to weigh 35g at Matimyas Bakery, a bakery in suburban Manila. However, as the cost of local and imported ingredients has soared, co-owner Jam Mauleon gradually reduced the size of the roll — known as the �...