Grocery Prices
Fruit & Vegetable prices
U.S. city average · May 2026
Produce price snapshot
The fruit & vegetable group covers bananas, lemons, lettuce, oranges, potatoes and tomatoes — 6 staples Basket Report prices each month at the U.S. city average from Bureau of Labor Statistics data. In May 2026 they ran from bananas at $0.65 per pound up to tomatoes at $2.49 per pound, with 4 costing more than a month earlier and 2 costing less.
The biggest monthly increase came from lettuce, up 20.6%. Going the other way, tomatoes fell 7.4%. Over the past year tomatoes stands out, up 46.0% from twelve months ago.
These are unadjusted BLS shelf averages — never estimates — and each one feeds the fixed-weight Grocery Basket Price Index. Bananas carries the longest record, charted monthly back to January 1980; open any row for its history, or check the latest fruit & vegetable move on the Receipt.
| Item | Unit | Price | MoM | YoY | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bananas | pound | $0.65 | ▼ 1.2% | ▼ 1.4% | |
| Lemons | pound | $2.09 | ▲ 2.9% | ▲ 10.2% | |
| Lettuce, iceberg | pound | $1.96 | ▲ 20.6% | ▲ 36.6% | |
| Oranges, navel | pound | $1.54 | ▲ 2.5% | ▼ 1.4% | |
| Potatoes, white | pound | $0.89 | ▲ 4.0% | ▼ 6.7% | |
| Tomatoes, field grown | pound | $2.49 | ▼ 7.4% | ▲ 46.0% |
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI Average Price Data, series listed on each item page. Retrieved May 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.