{
  "query": {
    "country": "DE",
    "product": "tomatoes",
    "item": "Tomaten"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "price": {
    "currency": "EUR",
    "unit": "per kg",
    "value": 2.275,
    "measure": "median",
    "median": 2.275,
    "typical_low": null,
    "typical_high": null,
    "min": 1.59,
    "max": 6.9
  },
  "sample_size": null,
  "period": {
    "from": "2026-10-12",
    "to": "2026-10-18"
  },
  "confidence": "high",
  "price_type": "posted_price",
  "statistic": {
    "measure": "median",
    "reference_period": "2026-KW42",
    "note": "Median of the BLE's weekly national wholesale quotations (one per origin, variety and size): a quoted wholesale-market price, not a shop price and not a paid price. Quotations are not weighted by volume."
  },
  "as_of": "2026-10-23T12:12:19.028Z",
  "source": {
    "id": "de-ble-wholesale",
    "name": "BLE: weekly market and price report for fruit and vegetables",
    "publisher": "Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE), German federal government",
    "licence": "Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – Version 2.0 (dl-de/zero-2-0)",
    "licence_url": "https://www.govdata.de/dl-de/zero-2-0",
    "attribution": "Source: Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE), Markt- und Preisbericht Obst und Gemüse, open-data.ble.de (Datenlizenz Deutschland – Zero – Version 2.0).",
    "url": "https://open-data.ble.de/dataset/markt-und-preisbericht-obst-und-gemuese"
  },
  "method": "German wholesale fruit and vegetables: for the newest calendar week that the BLE has published, we take every national quotation (Verkaufsgebiet Deutschland) for the product, convert euro per 100 kg to euro per kg, and report the median of those quotations with the cheapest and dearest one. A quotation is the BLE's weekly wholesale price for one origin, variety and size, so the median is a middle quotation, not a list of sales; no sample size is given. The change on the previous week compares the same calculation for that week.",
  "method_url": "https://proofprice.com/method",
  "summary": "Wholesale Tomaten in Germany: median €2.275 per kg across 22 national BLE quotations (from €1.59 to €6.9), calendar week 42 of 2026. Published by Bundesanstalt für Landwirtschaft und Ernährung (BLE), German federal government for 2026-KW42.",
  "notice": "Information, not a valuation or offer. Ranges describe past recorded prices.",
  "extra": {
    "item": "Tomaten",
    "quotations": 22,
    "week": "202642",
    "iso_week": "2026-W42",
    "previous_week_median_eur_per_kg": 2.285,
    "change_on_previous_week_percent": -0.4,
    "origins": [
      "Belgien",
      "Deutschland",
      "Italien",
      "Kroatien",
      "Marokko",
      "Niederlande",
      "Polen",
      "Spanien",
      "Türkei"
    ],
    "cheapest_to_dearest": [
      {
        "origin": "Türkei",
        "variety": "runde",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 1.59
      },
      {
        "origin": "Türkei",
        "variety": "Rispen",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 1.84
      },
      {
        "origin": "Türkei",
        "variety": "Fleisch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 1.89
      },
      {
        "origin": "Polen",
        "variety": "runde",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 1.94
      },
      {
        "origin": "Kroatien",
        "variety": "Rispen",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 1.95
      },
      {
        "origin": "Polen",
        "variety": "Fleisch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 1.96
      },
      {
        "origin": "Kroatien",
        "variety": "Fleisch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.03
      },
      {
        "origin": "Niederlande",
        "variety": "runde",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.09
      },
      {
        "origin": "Marokko",
        "variety": "runde",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.1
      },
      {
        "origin": "Belgien",
        "variety": "runde",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.21
      },
      {
        "origin": "Belgien",
        "variety": "Rispen",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.25
      },
      {
        "origin": "Niederlande",
        "variety": "Rispen",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.3
      },
      {
        "origin": "Belgien",
        "variety": "Fleisch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.8
      },
      {
        "origin": "Deutschland",
        "variety": "Rispen",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.86
      },
      {
        "origin": "Deutschland",
        "variety": "Fleisch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 2.9
      },
      {
        "origin": "Deutschland",
        "variety": "runde",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 3.11
      },
      {
        "origin": "Niederlande",
        "variety": "Fleisch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 3.58
      },
      {
        "origin": "Spanien",
        "variety": "Kirsch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 6.03
      },
      {
        "origin": "Italien",
        "variety": "Kirsch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 6.36
      },
      {
        "origin": "Niederlande",
        "variety": "Kirsch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 6.7
      },
      {
        "origin": "Deutschland",
        "variety": "Kirsch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 6.76
      },
      {
        "origin": "Belgien",
        "variety": "Kirsch",
        "size": "",
        "eur_per_kg": 6.9
      }
    ],
    "price_basis": "posted (quoted) wholesale price, EUR per 100 kg converted to per kg",
    "market": "German wholesale markets, national figure (Verkaufsgebiet Deutschland)"
  },
  "answer_id": "ans_6122a8a19363602225f6",
  "method_version": "1",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-10-23T12:12:19.028Z",
  "evidence": {
    "type": "posted_price",
    "label": "Posted or listed price",
    "meaning": "A price a seller, market or authority publishes in advance (a shelf price, tariff, fee schedule or quoted wholesale price): it is what is asked, not a record of what each customer paid."
  },
  "reliability": "official_median_no_count",
  "data_as_of": "2026-10-18",
  "data_age_days": 5,
  "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."
  ]
}