Market Update for Tuesday 25 August 2020
In Vegetable and Salad lines:
- Soup Packs have been included in our list (in Veg – Hard category).
- Eggplant and Cucumbers are scarce and expensive.
- Most other vegetable and salad lines are good and prices are reasonable.
The best value vegetable and salad items are:
- Butternut Pumpkin
- Chats (small white) Potatoes
- Cauliflower
- Cabbage
- Broccoli
- Zucchini
- Green Capsicum
- Celery
- Fennel
- Asian Vegetables
- Silverbeet Spinach
- Salad Mix, Baby Spinach and Rocket
In Fruit,
- Red Papaya and Pineapples are nice.
- Rockmelons and Honeydew melons are nice again too.
- Watermelons are inconsistent so we have stopped them for now.
- Navel Oranges, Blood Oranges, Lemons, Ruby Grapefruit, Tangelos, and Afourer Mandarins are all in season and at their best. Limes are scarce and expensive. Imperial Mandarins have finished.
- Jazz, Pink Lady, Gala, Red Delicious and Granny Smith apples are all available and very good. Store apples covered in the fridge to keep them crisp.
- Bananas are good and cheap.
- Packham, Beurre Bosc and Nashi Pears are nice.
- USA Green and Red Seedless Grapes have started.
- New Zealand Kiwifruit and Kiwi Gold are in season and very good.
- QLD Strawberries are in season and at their best. Blueberries are nice too.
- Passionfruit are available and nice.
Other Items,
- Free-Range Eggs, Medjool Dates and Honey are available.