{
  "query": {
    "country": "CH",
    "item": "apples",
    "region": "F-CH"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "CHF",
    "unit": "per kg",
    "value": 2.73,
    "measure": "average",
    "median": null,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": null,
    "max": null
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-09-01",
    "to": "2026-09-30"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "posted_price",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "average",
    "reference_period": "2026-09",
    "note": "BLW 'list price' of a standard retail product: a posted price, not a receipt."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-11-04T13:31:45.359Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "ch-blw-produce-prices",
    "name": "Marktzahlen Früchte, Gemüse und Kartoffeln: monatliche Konsumentenpreise (BLW / FOAG, via LINDAS)",
    "publisher": "Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft BLW (Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG), published on opendata.swiss and LINDAS",
    "licence": "opendata.swiss terms of use, tier 'Open use' (terms_by): commercial use allowed, the source must be named (author, title, link)",
    "licence_url": "https://opendata.swiss/terms-of-use#terms_by",
    "attribution": "Source: Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG, 'Market figures fruit, vegetables, and potatoes - Monthly consumer prices' (https://ckan.opendata.swiss/dataset/marktzahlen-fruchte-gemuse-und-kartoffeln-monatliche-konsumentenpreise), Open use. ProofPrice selects the items and calculates the changes; the FOAG has not reviewed it.",
    "url": "https://ckan.opendata.swiss/dataset/marktzahlen-fruchte-gemuse-und-kartoffeln-monatliche-konsumentenpreise"
  },
  "method": "Switzerland produce: the monthly consumer price that the Federal Office for Agriculture (BLW) publishes for the item, French-speaking Switzerland (F-CH), newest month, in CHF. A BLW list price for a standard retail product, not a receipt and not a count of paid prices.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "In French-speaking Switzerland (F-CH) the BLW consumer list price of \"Gala apples, class I (Äpfel Gala I)\" was 2.73 CHF per kg in September 2026. That is 2.5% lower than a year earlier (2.80 CHF). Published by Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft BLW (Federal Office for Agriculture FOAG), published on opendata.swiss and LINDAS for 2026-09.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "country_name": "Switzerland",
    "item": {
      "code": "1061",
      "definition": "Gala apples, class I (Äpfel Gala I)",
      "unit": "per kg",
      "organic": false,
      "asked_for": "apples"
    },
    "region": "French-speaking Switzerland (F-CH)",
    "what_this_is": "Monthly consumer list price compiled by the Federal Office for Agriculture (BLW) for a standard retail product. A posted price, not a receipt and not the price at any one shop.",
    "reference_month": "2026-09",
    "reference_month_label": "September 2026",
    "change_on_year_earlier": {
      "reference_month": "2025-09",
      "value": 2.8,
      "change_percent": -2.5
    },
    "change_on_previous_month": {
      "reference_month": "2026-08",
      "value": 2.86,
      "change_percent": -4.5
    },
    "organic_price_same_month": 5.03,
    "organic_available": "Add organic=true (or \"organic\" in the item) for the organic product.",
    "other_definitions": [
      {
        "item": "golden apples",
        "definition": "Golden apples, class I (Äpfel Golden I)",
        "unit": "per kg"
      },
      {
        "item": "braeburn apples",
        "definition": "Braeburn apples, class I (Äpfel Braeburn I)",
        "unit": "per kg"
      },
      {
        "item": "boskoop apples",
        "definition": "Boskoop apples, class I (Äpfel Boskoop I)",
        "unit": "per kg"
      },
      {
        "item": "pink lady apples",
        "definition": "Pink Lady apples (Äpfel Pink Lady)",
        "unit": "per kg"
      }
    ],
    "dataset": {
      "title": "Market figures fruit, vegetables, and potatoes - Monthly consumer prices",
      "url": "https://ckan.opendata.swiss/dataset/marktzahlen-fruchte-gemuse-und-kartoffeln-monatliche-konsumentenpreise"
    }
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_0a82300cb586af4f42f6",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T13:31:45.359Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "posted_price",
    "label": "Published list price",
    "meaning": "A monthly consumer price that the Federal Office for Agriculture compiles from retail list prices of standard products; no count of prices is published."
  },
  "reliability": "official_median_no_count",
  "data_as_of": "2026-09-30",
  "data_age_days": 35,
  "suggestions": [
    "This is one published figure (an average, median, index or listed price) with no record count: use it as a reference point, not as a range of what individuals paid.",
    "For a decision on a specific job or purchase, ask for an itemised quote.",
    "This is a posted price, not what each customer paid."
  ]
}