An unseasonal return to warmer weather this week has bolstered the supply of quality fresh produce into the Brisbane Produce Market with some vegetables, bananas and mandarins falling in price.
Cauliflower, silverbeet and chillies have recorded the biggest price drop in the vegetable lines.
Other bargains include quality Asian vegetables, beetroot, brussels sprouts, broccoli, eggplant, squash, zucchini, onions, potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkin at value-for-money prices.
Sweet corn is more plentiful this week and reasonably priced.
Expect to pay firm prices for beans, capsicum, carrots, celery, fennel, leeks, parsnips, snow peas and mushrooms, although the delicious edible fungus has reduced in price from last week.
In the salad lines, most tomato varieties are struggling with quality and higher prices with the exception of cherry red tomatoes which are plentiful.
There are still plentiful supplies of exotic fruits on your local fruit shop's shelves including dragon fruit, custard apples, carambola (star fruit), feijoa, pomegranate, quince, nashi pears and the zesty Buddha's hand, with segments that look like fingers.
Avocados are the best value that they have been all season, with the new season, pebbly skinned hass dropping deeper in price than the green skinned shepard variety.
The warm weather is still a great time for eating well priced, quality lettuce, mixed leaf salad, cucumber, eshallots and herbs.
The biggest price falls in fruit include cheaper rockmelons, seedless watermelon, passionfruit and pink lady apples. Mandarins are plentiful and at bargain prices.
Lemons remain firmly priced along with most average quality berries, figs, pears, imported cherries, end-of-season grapes and most good quality apples.
Navel and valencia oranges and limes remain at reasonable prices.
For something unusual, chefs have been trying beach banana, also known as pig face, which is a ground creeper found on sand dunes and cliffs that is being farmed for its plump, juicy leaves that have a light, sweet, salty taste. It is great to use in meat dishes.
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