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Britain is currently is the throes of a courgette crisis, with shoppers struggling to find the on-trend vegetable on supermarket shelves.

Many are blaming the rise of 鈥榗ourgetti鈥�, which is spiralized courgette, for the shortage, but suppliers say the lack of courgettes available to buy is due to a cold winter.

Mark Hall, Assistant Secretary of the National Vegetable Society, said 鈥渢he crisis is affecting broccoli too.鈥�

He said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 affecting the fresh green vegetables that don鈥檛 grow so well in this country in the winter.鈥�

鈥淲e can survive without courgettes, they鈥檙e not the be-all and end-all, but they are nice to have,鈥� he added.

This clip is originally from 5 live Breakfast on Thursday 19 2017.