Even at the height of summer the quality of fruits and vegetables can vary. For the freshest ripest and most flavorful options look for produce grown near you taste before you buy when possible and use all your senses when shopping. We share 5 quick tips to help you choose the best summer produce.
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Sweet juicy fruits like melons pineapples peaches plums and tomatoes should feel heavy for their size. A gentle squeeze can also tell you a lot: if your peach feels hard as a rock it’s probably not ripe. You’ll also want to turn melons over and check the spot where the fruit was resting on the ground. Generally the lighter the spot the less ripe the melon. A really yellow spot could mean it’s overripe.
Cucumbers zucchini summer squash peaches and even some beans and okra can have a little fuzz or tiny prickly hairs when they’re at their youngest and freshest. The lack of fuzz isn’t necessarily a bad thing; it can simply mean the produce is ripe has been de-fuzzed during cleaning or has been off the plant a little longer. But generally speaking fine fuzz is a great thing.
Green beans peas asparagus celery carrots and other woody or crunchy vegetables should snap easily and audibly when you bend them in half. If they are rubbery they have been out of the field for a while.
