{
  "query": {
    "country": "CH",
    "item": "bananas"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "CHF",
    "unit": "per kg",
    "value": 3.07,
    "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": "2026-11-04T13:31:29.489Z",
  "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, Switzerland, 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 Switzerland the BLW consumer list price of \"Bananas (Bananen), organic\" was 3.07 CHF per kg in September 2026. That is unchanged from September 2025 (3.07 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": "1253",
      "definition": "Bananas (Bananen)",
      "unit": "per kg",
      "organic": true,
      "asked_for": "bananas"
    },
    "region": "Switzerland",
    "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": 3.07,
      "change_percent": 0
    },
    "change_on_previous_month": {
      "reference_month": "2026-08",
      "value": 3.07,
      "change_percent": 0
    },
    "other_definitions": [],
    "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_5ec2c7e4d1b42bf83d17",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-04T13:31:29.489Z",
  "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."
  ]
}