Iceland supermarket has become the latest supermarket to ration sunflower oil amid a shortage caused by the war in Ukraine according to industry paper The Grocer.

Images started to emerge on social media over the weekend of signs in an Iceland store telling customers of a limit on purchases of two-litre and five-litre bottles of the oil.

“We have a limited stock of this product,” said the signs, spotted by Grocery Insight CEO Steve Dresser. “Maximum of one per customer.”

On Iceland’s website, two-litre bottles of Flora the oil are out of stock, leaving a 190ml bottle of Frylight cooking spray as the only oil option

It follows Waitrose and Morrisons also introducing a limit on cooking oils, of two items per customer.

It also comes after Iceland MD Richard Walker said last month that sunflower oil shortages had forced the supermarket to temporarily return to using palm oil in own-label food.

Iceland’s 2018 removal of palm oil from its own label, a step it took over deforestation concerns, had made it heavily reliant on sunflower oil, which had soared in price by 1,000% due to the war in Ukraine, Walker said in a blog.

With the vast majority of the UK’s sunflower oil sourced from Ukraine and Russia, stocks are drying up rapidly. Industry sources have predicted they could run out in a matter of weeks.

The shortages have also led to price hikes in supermarkets.

Last month, The Grocer reported that Tesco’s own-label sunflower oil and vegetable oil one-litre and three-litre SKUs had risen from £1.09 to £1.20 and £3.25 to £3.50 respectively, while Sainsbury’s one-litre sunflower oil bottles had risen from £1.09 to £1.20. All of this simply adds more to the general rising cost or shortages of many products that are causing household incomes to suffer as we go through this year.