# Pepper & spices and Salt

Their prices have moved together.

Source page: https://www.materialinsights.org/links/pepper-and-spices-and-salt/

[Pepper & spices](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/spices/) (commodity) and [Salt](https://www.materialinsights.org/commodities/salt/) (commodity): 1 relationship.

## How they are linked

### 1. Price link: shared index

*Cost and price · Weak · Both ways*

The spice proxy is a US index that also covers table salt, so it shares a component with the salt series. Even so, monthly moves correlate at minus 0.14, showing the two products are priced separately.

- **-0.14** monthly change correlation
- **-0.07** 12-month change correlation
- **1.16** fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.