Tesco announces further price cuts on pasta and cooking oil

It follows a number of supermarkets dropping the price of some lines of bread and butter last week in response to falling commodity prices.

A shopper walking through the aisle of a Tesco supermarket (Yui Mok/PA) (PA Wire)

Tesco has announced another round of price cuts on its own-brand pasta and cooking oil as it sees deflation making its way through to cupboard essentials.

The UK’s biggest supermarket is dropping the price of 30 products, with 15p off 500g and 1kg packs of own-brand pasta, 14p off its one litre vegetable oil and 15p off its one litre sunflower oil.

It follows a number of supermarkets dropping the price of some lines of bread and butter last week in response to falling commodity prices.