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Brisbane Market Report - 24

Brisbane Market Report - 24

It may be the best time to warm up with vegetables and exotic fruits at this time of year but the cool weather has slowed some crops, shortening supplies and as a result, firming prices.

Expect to pay firm prices for Asian vegetables, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, fennel, leeks, parsnips, snow peas, silverbeet, squash, sweet corn, zucchini, mushrooms, and end season potatoes, which should reduce in price when the Queensland growing regions are ready for harvest in the days ahead.

Imported asparagus is also firmly priced and beans are expensive.

For bargain hunters, look for beetroot, brussels sprouts, capsicum, carrot, eggplant, onions, sweet potatoes and pumpkin to fill your basket.

Salads may not be as popular in the cooler weather but there are some great value-for-money avocados, lettuce, mixed salad leaf, cucumber and eshallots available.

Tomatoes have risen in price. For the best eating, select ones that are bright red for immediate use, and pale pink for future use.

Coriander will cost you more. Most other herbs are plentiful and reasonably priced.

The buy of the week are bananas with the popular cavendish variety cheap and the smaller sweet lady fingers at a reasonable price.  Bananas have twice as much vitamin C as apples, pears and grapes.

You will also find reasonably priced strawberries, mandarins, navel oranges, New Zealand kiwifruit, watermelon, honeydew melon, pineapples, passionfruit and pawpaw.

Expect to pay firmer prices for the best quality apples and pears, along with raspberries and blueberries, limes, rockmelon and US imported cherries, peaches and nectarines.

Lemons are firmly priced to expensive.

For those looking to explore some different varieties of fresh produce, there are still plenty of custard apples, pomegranate, starfruit (carambola), soursop, cumquats, dragon fruit (pitaya), rambutan, black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit), chestnuts, rosellas, cara cara (a red-fleshed naval orange), ruby grapefruit and nashi pears at your local fruit shop.

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