How to buy fruits

• The best are of course fruits from your own garden or from a known source., that’s obvious! Unfortunately, I can’t visit my mum’s garden too often.
• On the market where I usually do the shopping, through trial and error I singled out a few sellers that I trust. I try to do buy only from them. Those sellers can tell about different fruits, their varieties, the way they went from an orchard / garden to their stall.
• I buy seasonal fruits. There is a chance they had contact with normal soil and the sun – so by choosing them, I buy vitamins. It’s good to have a freezer and stock up for the winter.
• Wormy – the best! 😀 They are rarely met at present. But if I can see tomatoes or apples of different sizes and colours or with small flaws all in one crate – I take them, there is a chance they haven’t been stuffed with chemical ingredients.
• I choose fruits that are hard, undamaged, heavy and without mould. Those that aren’t ripe will ripen on their own at room temperature. Peaches and nectarines will stay hard if they are hard already.
• I buy fruits by weight, straight from crates on the market. Those wrapped in foil are less valuable.
• I don’t buy canned fruits. Exceptionally in winter when I need some to make a cake. Canned fruits are usually full of sugar and calories.
• Citrus fruits shouldn’t have too thick skin (unfortunately, it’s a common view in supermarkets). It means they don’t contain a lot of juice.
• I’m careful with fruits that look beautiful: shiny, equal size. They have been modified to fit packing trays, they are thickly waxed to shine. It’s hard to tell how much nature is still in them.
• I also buy dried fruits by weight on the market. When they are wrapped in foil, they contain artificial preservatives and lots of sugar, they are at risk of mould as well. Dried fruits are more caloric!
• I wash thoroughly both fresh and dried fruits, the latter even scald with boiling water.
• I choose less caloric fruits and preferably sour:
  • strawberries 28 kcal / 100 g
  • raspberries 29 kcal / 100 g
  • watermelon 30 kcal / 100 g
  • currants 33 kcal / 100 g
  • wild strawberries 33 kcal / 100 g
  • melon 36 kcal / 100 g
  • lemons 36 kcal / 100 g
  • grapefruit 36 kcal / 100 g
  • gooseberry 40 kcal / 100 g

Enjoy your colourful and fruit summer! 😀