The share of vanaspati in the basket of different types of cooking oils consumed by Indians has nearly halved in the past decade to 2.88%. However, it still holds the second-highest weightage of 14.35% in the wholesale price index (WPI) after palm oil, whereas sunflower and soybean oils, which are now consumed more, get a lower weightage in the WPI of 2011-12, an anomaly which may lead to erroneous data about inflation.
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