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Brisbane Market Report - 06

Brisbane Market Report - 06

Prices are rising on many fresh produce favourites in the lead up to Christmas with your local fruit shop heavily stocked from the Brisbane Produce Market to meet additional demand.

In the vegetable line, you can still find reasonably priced beetroot, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicum, carrots, celery, eggplant, snow peas, silverbeet, squash, sweet corn, zucchini and potatoes.

However, prices are firm on good quality Asian vegetables, asparagus, beans, brussels sprouts, fennel, leeks, parsnips, mushrooms, sweet potatoes and pumpkin.

Brown onions are also firmly priced with less supplies arriving from the growing region. They are long lasting and can be kept in a cool dark place (not the refrigerator) for several weeks.

Avocados are expensive and tomatoes are firmly priced, but most other salad items are value-for-money and make for colourful, healthy accompaniments to a festive meal. 

You will find reasonably priced lettuce, mixed leaf salad, cucumber, eshallots and herbs.

Be prepared to pay top dollar for lemons, pears, pineapples and passionfruit.

Not all seasonal fruits are as expensive, with bananas, blueberries, valencia oranges, grapes, rockmelon, watermelon, cherries and small sized stonefruit reasonably priced. Larger peaches, nectarines, apricots and plums are firmly priced.

Mangoes are smaller in size this year and costly, with the kensington pride variety, sometimes known as the Bowen mango, harder to find but there are plenty of others to choose from.

You will pay firm prices for good quality apples, strawberries, raspberries, USA navels, figs, kiwifruit, honeydew melons and pawpaw.

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