The first bar chart illustrates the growth of price in different food groups from 2007 to 2014, while the second bar chart gives information about the changes in food purchases in low-income families from 2007-2012.
Overall, it can be clearly seen that in the first chart fish was at the top of the range, and witnessed the highest rise, whereas in the second chart flour had the largest percentage of food purchases among other categories.
In terms of vegetables, it had the least increase in price of 25%, which is to 15% lower than fish, the most purchased product with 37% of growth. Furthermore, fruit placed second among groups of food and was 3% lower that fish, having approximately 32% of rise. Soft drinks and cheese were almost similar, despite cheese having higher percentage (28% and 29,9% respectively). Another interesting point is that flour became lower between fish and fruit, having 31% of climb from 2007 to 2014.
In contrast, flour had the highest figure among other food purchases, going up from 0% to almost 90%. As for fruit and fish, changes went down to approximately -19% in both food categories. Moreover, vegetables and cheese also decreased from exactly 0% to -6% and -4%. At the bottom of the chart, soft drinks decreased by -3% of changes in food purchases in low-income families.
