Lacks contextVerified on September 9, 2026

The claim under review

“Dozens of products became cheaper under the current government.”

Lacks context: 109 of 112 items remain above their Jan 2019 price

The evidence

The “item by item” section of the original site, with each product's variation across both windows and the “cheaper under Lula” badge.

Item by item

"Cheaper" does not mean cheap.

We took the 112 items from the original site's own table, with their figures, without changing a comma. And we did the one calculation that was missing: chaining the two windows to find where the price stands today relative to January 2019.

109 of 112

items are still pricier than in January 2019

items did fall during the 2023-2026 window

34 of those 37

fell, yet remain above their 2019 price

items are genuinely below their 2019 level

The ones that weigh most today

Mango (Manga)

2019-2022 window+105.6%

2023-2026 window+104.6%

Today vs. 2019+320.7%

Still 321% pricier than in 2019

Cabbage (Repolho)

2019-2022 window+101.4%

2023-2026 window+57.2%

Today vs. 2019+216.6%

Still 217% pricier than in 2019

Watermelon (Melancia)

2019-2022 window+117.1%

2023-2026 window+29.7%

Today vs. 2019+181.6%

Still 182% pricier than in 2019

UHT milk (Leite longa vida)

2019-2022 window+130.5%

2023-2026 window+19.4%

Today vs. 2019+175.2%

Still 175% pricier than in 2019

Black-eyed pea (Feijão macáçar (fradinho))

2019-2022 window+149.0%

2023-2026 window+9.9%

Today vs. 2019+173.7%

Still 174% pricier than in 2019

Carioca bean (Feijão carioca (rajado))

2019-2022 window+130.9%

2023-2026 window+12.9%

Today vs. 2019+160.7%

Still 161% pricier than in 2019

Lettuce (Alface)

2019-2022 window+85.1%

2023-2026 window+40.1%

Today vs. 2019+159.3%

Still 159% pricier than in 2019

Ground coffee (Café moído)

2019-2022 window+72.7%

2023-2026 window+48.7%

Today vs. 2019+156.8%

Still 157% pricier than in 2019

Verdict

Soybean oil appears as "cheaper under Lula" (−14.2%). True — and it still costs 135% more than in 2019. Rice fell 1.9% and remains 47.6% above. A fall after a surge does not give the price back: it gives back a fraction of it. That is why the chart improves while the feeling at the checkout does not follow.

Calculation: cumulative price level = ((1 + first-window change) × (1 + second-window change) − 1). Variations taken from the "Item by item" section of mercadodamentira.com.br (Sep 2026), which cites IPCA/IBGE. When chaining consecutive periods, indices multiply — they do not add.

Other fact-checks

MisleadingUnemployment fell from over 14% to 5.4% because of the current government.Lacks contextFood prices rose 4x more under the previous government than the current one.MisleadingEnding the 6x1 work shift is among the current government's delivered policies.FalseIBGE is falsifying employment and inflation data.AnalysisTheir comparison table, audited.AnalysisWhat the campaign gets right — and what nobody is telling you.

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