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Brisbane Market Report 98

Brisbane Market Report 98

Prices are on the rise as Christmas shoppers scoop up their fresh produce in time for the festive celebrations, with some family favourites struggling with quality caused by summer heat and Victorian storms.

Look out for top quality, value-for-money Asian vegetables, beetroot, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, eggplant, silverbeet, mushrooms, onions, sweet potatoes and pumpkin.

Sweet corn has reduced to a reasonable price with the tender corn-ears best eaten immediately or frozen for later to avoid the sugar content turning into starch.

Potatoes are slightly firmer in price with the best ones firm to touch and heavy for their size.

Rain and heat in the growing regions have pushed up the price of asparagus, cauliflower and average quality machine cut beans, but hand-picked beans are eating well.

Expect to pay more for celery, fennel, leeks, parsnips, snow peas, squash, zucchini and end-of-season capsicums.

In the salad aisle, there is an abundance of mixed cucumber, eshallots and herbs at reasonable prices.

Most mixed leaf salad is also value-for-money. However, the supply of rocket is greatly reduced after recent rains and heat.

Lettuce has firmed in price.

Tomatoes and New Zealand grown avocados are also firmly priced and in the current weather conditions, are best selected if they are firmer to the touch.

Fruit is the star of the Christmas table with great tasting and reasonably priced mangoes wafting with the smell of value-for-money yellow peaches and nectarines, smaller sized apricots and plums, and handfuls of lychees.

However, it will be harder to find white peaches and nectarines this week and expect to pay top dollar for any larger-sized stonefruit that you select.

Other great buys include good quality blueberries, limes, all melons, pears and pawpaw.

Pineapples are in short supply with the hybrid “topless” ones, with their crowns cut off, the most expensive.

Pink ladies are the best eating apple and like the other apple varieties at this time of year, are firmly priced.

You will also pay firm prices for grapes, figs, Italian kiwifruit, passionfruit, and both lady finger and cavendish bananas.

Strawberries are struggling with quality and are firm in price, with the best punnets expected to cost you more.

Expect to pay top dollar for end-of-season lemons, and Australian and USA grown navels.

Brisbane Produce Market

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