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.

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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.

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, the figures for sweet

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and

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saw an almost linear rise over the

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.

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, vegetarian

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had a lot of ups and downs during that time

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had an increasing trend in

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. In the

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

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of 70. 4 years later, the

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

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. By 1983, the sweet

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figure met the

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at the

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of 100

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the

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

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2 years of

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,

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the graphs for sweet

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and

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were the same at 100, the vegetarian

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’s

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rose and became the highest

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. Throughout the remainder of the

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, the

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of both sweet

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and

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

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, the vegetarian

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’s figure showed some rapid growth,

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some consistent periods and reached its highest

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at about 330 in 2008. In the

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year, the

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of fresh fruits and vegetables dropped slightly to 325.