What is the key to finding the best tasting fruit? The variety name! Just like apples, all fruit have a variety name, and just like apples, different varieties taste different. We know that Gala apples are sweet and crisp, while Cox are more soft and tangy, but are less familiar with the difference between Shelley […]
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With the kids on holiday, and constantly ravenous, how do you encourage them to eat fruit and not crisps and sweets? With voracious appetites and constant hunger, it’s better to eat something healthy, so fruit is ideal grazing food – if you pick the right types and varieties. Good flavour and sweetness is what keeps
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Week 35, 2015 28th August, 2015 Fruit News This Week Five For Fabulous Flavour: Wild blackberries New season English apples – Discovery, Estivale, Zari English Plums – Jubileum, Reeves Seedless, Avalon, Victoria Grapes – Sable, Tropical Mango, Stella Bella, Cotton Candy, Timpson, Krissy Israeli Mangoes – Maya and Shelley Blackberries: Wild blackberries are free and
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Week 34, 2015 20th August Fruit News This Week Blueberries: Blueberries are more abundant now than at any time of the year. Bluecrop from Poland is the main variety at very good values. Greengages: Probably the sweetest stone fruit at the moment are greengages from Portugal, France and England: catch them while they last! Wild
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Pears in August It may not be obvious, but early to mid-summer is a great time for pears. The shops are full of a delicious array of varieties from the southern hemisphere, many of which we do not see in the European season. Did you try Forelle from South Africa, or Taylors Gold from New
What are Clementines, Mandarins, Satsumas and Tangerines? It is confusing to browse the citrus aisle in a retail store for easy-peelers because of the plethora of names and descriptions used: Satsumas, Clementines, Tangerines, Mandarins, etc. There is quite a list, which has largely developed to help retailers differentiate a complex group of similar fruit for
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This week, the stand-out fruit in most stores are blood oranges and Navel oranges; Nadorcott mandarins; Sable black grapes; and FlavorKing plums. On browsing various individual retailers, most have additional tasty options which are highlighted below and well worth trying if you see them:
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This week, the stand-out fruit in most stores are blood oranges and Navels; Nadorcott mandarins; Sable black grapes; lychee and various South African plums. Otherwise, on browsing the retail shelves I would highlight the following as being interesting in the flavour stakes: ALDI: Oranges: Tarocco blood oranges at Aldi prices!
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