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Brisbane Market Report 95

Brisbane Market Report 95

The traditional pre-festive season slowing down of fresh fruit and vegetable sales, at a time the summer crops are ripe for picking, has resulted in a price drop across most fresh produce categories this week.

In the vegetable aisle, you can pick up top quality, value-for-money Asian vegetables, asparagus, beans, beetroot, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum, carrots, celery, fennel, leeks, parsnips, snow peas, silverbeet, zucchini, mushrooms, onions and pumpkin.

Sweet potatoes are affordable and become more accessible as paddocks have dried, and are of great value, and best stored in a cool, dark place with plenty of ventilation.

There are two markets for eggplant with the glasshouse-grown glamour fruit commanding high prices over their field grown counterparts.

Brussels sprouts, broccoli, squash, sweet corn and potatoes are firmly priced.

Most salad items are fresh, of great quality and reasonably priced with mixed leaf salad, cucumber, eshallots and all herbs in plentiful supply.

Lettuce is cheap, with the best having dark green outer leaves that are intact and looking healthy.

Expect to pay top dollar for ginger, avocados and average quality tomatoes.

Cherries are the cheapest and most expensive fruit at the same time, with the best quality contrasting with the give-away prices of the poorer offerings, with both keeping better if you don’t wash them before storage.

Watch out for value-for-money limes, valencia oranges, mangoes, all melons, passionfruit, pawpaw and all stonefruit, with the larger-sized fruit the best eating.

Figs are expensive with all berries, honey murcott mandarins, end of season valencia, kiwifruit, honeydew, pears and pineapples firmly priced.

In the apple category, pink lady and royal gala apples are eating well at reasonable prices but most other varieties are firmly priced.

Lady finger bananas are costing more than the larger, reasonably priced cavendish but both types are sweeter to the palate when brown “sugar” spots appear on their skin

The apple-sized, tropical pomegranate, with its thick hard red coloured skin and hundreds of tangy-sweet edible seeds are currently grown in the USA and at the top of their price range.

Lychees are available with the new season crop eating well, but at expensive prices, with some poorer offerings at reasonable to firm prices.

 

Brisbane Produce Market.

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