Did You Know – Buying Fresh Fruit
With the price of fruit these days, you don’t want to buy it only to get home and realize you can’t use it because it was too ripe, bruised or a bad quality. Below are some suggestions for buying fruit.
- BANANAS: The skin should not have any bruises or brown spots. Purchase them green and allow them to ripen on the counter at room temperature.
- BERRIES: The berries should be plump and solid with a good color. Do not purchase them if the container looks stained as this means berries may be going bad. If blackberries or raspberries still have the stem on, they may not be ripe. Strawberries should still have the caps on them or they may be overripe.
- MELONS: The best quality cantaloupe is when it has a thick, close netting on the rind. They are ripe when the stem end is smooth and the space between the netting is yellow or yellow-green. If you smell the melon it should have a fruity odor to it. Honeydew are ripe when the flesh has a creamy to yellowish color and a velvety texture. If you see one that is whitish green, it is an immature melon. Watermelon are ripe when they have a bit of yellow color on one side. If one side is white or pale green on one side, it is not ripe.
- ORANGES & GRAPEFRUIT: Choose ones that are heavy for their size. Smoother, thinner skins usually indicate more juice. Most skin markings do not affect the quality of the fruit. Oranges with a slight greenish tinge may be just as ripe as fully colored ones.
- LEMONS: Light or greenish yellow lemons are more tart than ones with a deep yellow color.
AVOID CITRUS FRUITS SHOWING WITHERED, SUNKEN OR SOFT AREAS.
Source: Ron Douglas
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These are great tips for fruits!
I’m glad you enjoyed them. Thank you for stopping by!
Interesting info about weight of oranges and grapefruit
I thought so too Derrick. It makes sense though, more juice more weight.
Thank you Ned.
great tips, especially the cantaloupe, I’m never quite sure how to tell if its ripe
Thank you, I learned how to pick good cantaloupe a long time ago, now if my husband would learn how. Haha
Not a problem in French markets as you pick the fruit yourself.
I am so jealous that you have markets like that. We have small farmer produce stands but there’s never that much to pick from and even they put out produce that’s over a day old.
We’re very fortunate
Good tips! And what a beautiful photo Diane!
Recently, I’ve had bad luck with avocados. They feel just right, and yet there is already brown inside.
Thank you Dorothy. Sometimes fruit and vegetables look perfect on the outside then you cut them open and it’s a different story.
I agree about fruit, Diane. Groceries and life are so expensive now and I actually do smaller grocery trips so I get fruit closer to the intended use, such as for T’s lunches, so they are fresher. Nothing irritates me more than fuzzy moldy berries! 😆
I totally understand. Even when we drive an hour away to go to a huge market and buy fruit, it only lasts a day.
Great info Diane!
Thank you Susan!
These are good reminders, Diane, thank you. 🍌🍉🍓🍋
You’re welcome Tanja, have a great day!!
Thank you. I wish you the same.
Bananas – I always get the green ones and let them ripen on their own … sometimes I’ll get a mix so I can eat them sooner … I’m no fan of when they get hopelessly spotted and brown as they are way too sweet for me. I didn’t know about thick versus thin skins on citrus fruits – very interesting Diane!
I’m with you on bananas, can’t stand super ripe. I thought the skin thickness was interesting too but how in the world do you figure out how thick it is without cutting it? 🤷🏽♀️
Yes, I don’t see how you can tell. They are sickening sweet when over-ripe.
I agree!
Here are bananas in our fruit bowl that we bought over the weekend … and we are waiting (not so) patiently for them to ripen!
Haha Put a couple of them in a brown paper bag with apples or tomatoes for a quick fix. Lol
Thanks, Diane, for a timely post. Hate to waste money on bad fruit choices.
Barbara
I agree Barbara, you’re welcome!
Great tips Diane! Hugs, C
Thank you Cheryl!
Thank you these tops, Diane. Particularly with watermelon, I have often made the mistake of thinking I bought a good one. Only to either find it underripe or mushy when I cut in open at home. Fruit definitely is pricey these days. 🍋
You’re welcome Carl!
Great tips, thanks so much!
You’re welcome!
Appreciate you sharing and all you said, now trying to get my hands through the screen to reach and ear lol 😆 😂 😄
Thank you!