August is the month for indulging in the wonderful opulence of the summer offering. The spring flowerings are gradually yielding their promise across Europe in the form of luscious and tasty fruit. There is nothing quite like the honeyed sweetness of greengages or the juicy fleshiness of peaches or the fragrance of strawberries, except perhaps […]
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The best fresh fruit on sale in July July is a month of subtle change. What began in the early summer in southern Europe, gradually rolls north, so we see our own fruit being produced locally or at least in our own country. The same is experienced across all our neighbours in Europe: it is
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Fruit News This June The best fresh fruit on sale in June The warmth and freshness of June usually brings out the best in our homegrown soft fruit, though the unseasonally cool weather this year is certainly a challenge for growers. June is the time to expect an abundance of local berries as they reach
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May is a month of great change of new and old seasons across the fruit spectrum. European soft fruit, melons and stone fruit start filling supermarket shelves; southern hemisphere avocados, satsumas, kiwis, pears and apples arrive; and Indian mangoes fill Asian grocery shops. It is only the grape offer that really struggles, with oranges and
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April continues the theme of March with the challenge for the fruit industry as old seasons close and new seasons start. Early varieties have a freshness and tang not to everyone’s taste and retailers struggle with quality of long stored product to stretch seasons. It means grapes can be straggly, mandarins lose their zing, plums,
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The irrepressible march of the seasons gives March an appropriate name and an ebullience that I suspect we all feel after an endless winter. This month tends to be tricky for the fruit trade as there are seasons ending and seasons beginning which always present a challenge for management of quality. For us, the consumer,
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The emphasis on fruit in February is still about oranges, mandarins, grapes and avocados, as in January, but with subtle and interesting differences. Oranges and mandarins from the Mediterranean improve in depth of flavour and balance of acid and sweetness; South Africa becomes the main source of grapes, now in their mid-to-late season and of
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Every month of the year has a group of fruit that really comes into its own, and in January it is citrus, closely followed by grapes. The citrus is from the second half of the Mediterranean season with the tasty late season mandarins and the start of the best oranges money can buy. These are
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Christmas wouldn’t be the same without some delicious, eye-catching fruit in the fruit bowl, and, as it happens, there are plenty of wonderful fruit available in December and several that can be a treat for the Christmas table. Below are my suggestions of the best varieties for taste that are available in UK supermarkets. Happy
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