Market Update for Tuesday 30 April 2024
In Vegetable and Salad lines:
- Ginger, Corn and Long Red Chillies are unavailable due to poor quality.
- Red Capsicum are in-between seasons. The available fruit is small and expensive.
- Most Vegetable and Salad lines are good but prices are firm due to light supply.
The best seasonal vegetable and salad items are:
- Pumpkin
- Sweet Potato
- Brushed (Dirty) Potatoes
- Broccoli
- Zucchini
- Lebanese Cucumber
- Avocados
- Mushrooms
- Baby Cos Lettuce
- Salad Mix, Baby Spinach and Rocket
In Fruit,
- Seedless Watermelon, Pineapples and Rockmelons are nice. Honeydew melons are unavailable and we have stopped Papaya due to quality issues.
- Navel Oranges, Imperial Mandarins and Ruby Grapefruit have started. Limes and Lemons are good. Valencia Oranges are finishing.
- New season Pink Lady, Gala, Jazz and Granny Smith Apples have started. Store apples covered in the fridge to keep them crisp.
- Packham and Nashi Pears have started too. Williams Pears have finished.
- Bananas are good.
- Australian Red Seedless Grapes are very good. We have finished Green Grapes.
- Australian Kiwifruit have started. NZ Kiwi Gold are available too.
- Plums will finish this week.
- Strawberries are good but expensive. Blueberries are unavailable.
- Passionfruit are nice. We have finished Pomegranates for this season.
Other Items,
- Try our Medjool Dates, Honey and Free Range Eggs.