Brisbane Market Report – 23

Recent rains and the seasonal change of harvest locations has meant less volumes of fresh produce arriving at the Brisbane Produce Market, pushing some kitchen favourites higher in price.

You will still be able to buy value-for-money beetroot, brussels sprouts, cabbage, eggplant, mushrooms, onions, sweet potatoes and pumpkin.

However, there are short supplies of Asian vegetables, beans, sweet corn and zucchini making good quality produce expensive to buy.

Expect to pay firm prices for broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, capsicums, carrot, celery, fennel, leeks, parsnips, snow peas, silverbeet, squash, potatoes and imported asparagus.

Salad items are in less demand in the colder months meaning the shorter supplies have not affected the hip pocket in the same way.

Look for reasonably priced avocados, lettuce, mixed salad leaf, cucumbers and eshallots.

Coriander is hard to find and expensive and basil has firmed in price but most other herb supplies are plentiful.

You will pay firm prices for good quality tomatoes.

Mandarins, bananas and New Zealand kiwifruit are the best buys for school lunches, and join watermelon, honeydew, pineapples, passionfruit and pawpaw as the best priced fruit.

USA peaches and nectarines range from cheap to firm in price, depending on their age and quality with the oldest produce being sold off cheaply.

Navel oranges are also firmly priced for the best quality but there are still a large number of seconds at reasonable prices.

Good quality apples, all berries, lemons, limes, rockmelon and pears are firmly priced.

There are still plenty of custard apples, pomegranate, starfruit (carambola), soursop, cumquats, dragon fruit (pitaya), rambutan, black sapote (chocolate pudding fruit), chestnuts, rosellas, cara cara, ruby grapefruit, nashi pears and end of season Australian persimmons on the shelves.

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