Grocery Prices
Fruit & Vegetable prices
U.S. city average · Reporting month: September 2026
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The fruit & vegetable group covers bananas, lemons, lettuce, oranges, potatoes, romaine lettuce, strawberries and tomatoes — 8 products tracked at the U.S. city average from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. 8 of 8 items have September 2026 observations, ranging from bananas at $0.66 per pound to romaine lettuce at $3.31 per pound. Package units differ, so this is a source-unit price range rather than a serving-cost comparison. Among September 2026 observations with a prior-month comparison, 8 rose, 0 fell and 0 were unchanged.
The biggest available September 2026 monthly increase came from lettuce, up 11.2%. Among September 2026 observations, strawberries has the largest available absolute annual change: up 10.4% from a year earlier.
These are unadjusted BLS shelf averages. Basket members feed the fixed-weight Grocery Basket Price Index; tracked reference products are separate. Bananas carries the longest record, charted monthly back to January 1980. Open any row for its history and series ID. The table's changes compare periods relative to each row's source month.
| Item | Unit | Price | MoM | YoY | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bananas
Source: | pound | $0.66 | ▲ 0.6% | ▼ 2.1% | |
| Lemons
Source: | pound | $2.13 | ▲ 0.7% | ▲ 2.5% | |
| Lettuce, iceberg
Source: | pound | $1.64 | ▲ 11.2% | ▼ 5.5% | |
| Oranges, navel
Source: | pound | $1.72 | ▲ 0.8% | ▼ 4.4% | |
| Potatoes, white
Source: | pound | $0.99 | ▲ 1.3% | ▼ 2.5% | |
| Romaine Lettuce
Source: | pound | $3.31 | ▲ 0.8% | — | |
| Strawberries
Source: | 12-ounce package | $2.84 | ▲ 10.2% | ▲ 10.4% | |
| Tomatoes, field grown
Source: | pound | $1.99 | ▲ 0.8% | ▲ 4.3% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data, series listed on each item page. Retrieved October 14, 2026 via the BLS Public Data API. Download the full directory as CSV or JSON. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.