Food banks - tinned fruit

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Our local food bank is very short of tinned fruit. However, there is so much choice on the supermarket shelves. Can anyone say whether one sort of tinned fruit (I dont mean brand, but actual fruit eg pears or apricots for example) is preferred to any other or can I just pick any?

Another food bank manager here - peaches or whatever is cheapest (so you can buy more!) gets my vote.

When I was reliant on food banks a few years ago, I also used to get a weekly food parcel from the local church that had pretty much the same things in it every time (larder food so stuff like pasta, tinned tomatoes/kidney beans/potatoes/mushrooms/soup, teabags, long life milk, cereal, and ALWAYS tinned peaches in light syrup and tinned custard). The latter two were such a treat, I'd look forward to them all week 😆. I also personally think pineapple in juice is a real treat food and can be used in other meals/foods as well, e.g. pineapple upside down cake, curries, pizza (if you're a philistine haha).

No idea what they need but I use regularly a tinned mandarin, peaches, strawberries and pineapple.

Healthier in juice so more family friendly and go for mainstream like peaches or fruit salad

peaches are good when we were young my dad used to buy a cheap flan case and packet of jello and make a peach flan or occasionally strawberries or a mix of both very filling with custard

Peaches would be my go to, in juice (which is sweet enough and definitely a treat). Pears and pineapple would be equal second choice, and mandarins third.

I love tinned strawberries, but rarely buy them.

I like fruit cocktail in its own juice, syrups have more calories. X

Thank you so much everyone. Ill take all your comments on board. Someone was saying tinned peaches are cheapest but I needn’t make that a consideration per se. I suppose I could settle how much I wanted to spend each time on the food bank and then get as much as possible for that sum but luckily I dont have to count the pennies to that extent. (Mind you, when they were short of sugar I did notice that one brand was 25p more expensive than the other and chose the cheaper because sugar is sugar)

Thanks for asking the question. I’d always wondered what was best.

Just to say that tinned fruit in juice counts as one if your 5 a day. In syrup it doesn’t count at all. That’s why I always choose in juice over syrup to donate.
I usually give pineapple and occasionally mandarins but will look for peaches and pears too as others here have said they are well received.