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Brisbane Market Report - 19

Brisbane Market Report - 19

Some of Australia's most unusual exotic fruits are in season with the changing autumn weather a great time to try something new as more common fresh produce supplies fluctuate in volume and price from unpredictable weather.

In the vegetable aisle, expect some top quality Asian vegetables, beans, beetroot, brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum, eggplant, silverbeet, onions and sweet potatoes at a reasonable price.

Potatoes and pumpkin are plentiful, they are of top quality and are cheap.

However, the extremes of cold night time temperatures and warmer than usual days in the harvest areas has seen reduced supplies of broccoli, carrots, celery, fennel, leeks, parsnips, snow peas, squash, sweet corn and zucchini with all firm in price.

Expect to pay more for asparagus, which is imported at this time of year.

The warm days make salads a good option although tomatoes are a mixed bag of quality and price.  Most are firmly priced with the exception of cheaper priced cherry tomato punnets and the small roma variety. Cherry tomatoes have more vitamin C than most other varieties.

Avocados have become affordable and are excellent to team with reasonably priced mixed leaf salad, cucumbers, eshallots and a variety of herbs which are all plentiful this week.

Lettuce is firmly priced, with the darker leaves the most nutritious.

Chestnuts have made it onto your local fruit shop's shelves and although not as commonly eaten in Queensland, are well known in the southern states for their sweet and nutty flavour, particularly after being cooked. They contain little fat or oil and have small amounts of protein.

In the fruit section, the furry red rambutan has joined a range of other exotic fruits including rosellas, quince, dragon fruit, guava, black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit), feijoas, persimmons, pomegranates and custard apples.

The best fruit bargains include bananas, limes, mandarins, navel and valencia oranges, New Zealand kiwifruit including the sweeter gold variety, pineapples, passionfruit and pawpaw, with the red pawpaw variety the tastiest.

Blueberries and stonefruit from the USA are expensive, although some early Australian peaches are available many weeks earlier than expected.

Royal gala and pink lady apples are the best eating in the firmly priced apple category.

Strawberries have begun many weeks earlier than expected, are of good quality but firmly priced, as are lemons, honeydew, pears and average quality raspberries costing you more.

Average quality blueberries are expensive but expect the prices to fall in the weeks ahead as their season is expected to begin in earnest from June to April.

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