The graph below shows relative price changes for fresh fruits and vegetables, sugars and sweets, and carbonated drinks between 1978 and 2009. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and making comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The

line

graph

compares the prices of 3 different categories in the food and beverages area including fresh fruits and vegetables; sugar and sweets; carbonated drinks and how these prices changed from 1979 to 2009.

Overall

, the figures for sweet

stuff

and

drink

saw an almost linear rise over the

period

.

In contrast

, vegetarian

stuff

’s

line

had a lot of ups and downs during that time

although

it

also

had an increasing trend in

price

. In the

period

1979 – 1985, all 3 graphs started at the same point, about the

price

of 70. 4 years later, the

price

of sugar and sweets rose significantly to a little over 100 and stayed above the remaining categories’

graph

. By 1983, the sweet

stuff

figure met the

drink

at the

price

of 100

while

the

graph

for fresh fruits and vegetables dropped to approximately 80. In the

last

2 years of

this

period

,

while

the graphs for sweet

stuff

and

drink

were the same at 100, the vegetarian

stuff

’s

line

rose and became the highest

line

. Throughout the remainder of the

period

, the

price

of both sweet

stuff

and

drink

increased gradually to the highest point at exactly 200 and slightly over 150 by the year 2009, respectively.

On the other hand

, the vegetarian

stuff

’s figure showed some rapid growth,

also

some consistent periods and reached its highest

price

at about 330 in 2008. In the

last

year, the

line

graph

of fresh fruits and vegetables dropped slightly to 325.