Best supermarket fruit?

[OrangeTeacup]

Very random thread I know! Which supermarket do you find sells the best quality fruit? I want to eat more fruits eg berries and nice satsumas but my recent few shops from my usual supermarket haven’t been that great. Is M&S fruit good? I’ve also read good things about Lidl.

I find Sainsbury to have a nice broad range of fruit. I even found redcurrants in December so was able to make a summer pudding in winter!

I make a large bowl of fruit salad once a week mainly berry based from July to January, then switch to citrus February to April. I always add apple, lime juice and passion fruit to have a zesty fragrant sweetness. Pineapple but not melon which I find turns a salad bitter after a few days.

This is exactly that I want to do with a fruit bowl! My kids eat loads of fruit and veg and I am not as healthy! But our last few shops the fruit has been awful.

Our local Lidl is great for quality and also variety - I got some apples the other day that I hadn't seen before that had pink flesh.

M&S and Morrisons. I say that as a Tesco employee.

Yum!

M&S every time. They are known to have contracts with many of the premium growers. Eg Turkish cherries, Kentish Victoria plums, currently South African nectarines and peaches. The quality is unsurpassed. More expensive yes, but less waste because it’s actually good

Do you have a fruit market near you?

Wow you know your stuff!!! I’ll pop in tomorrow. For fruits at the moment what countries of origin should I look for?

My recipe, though I am sure I got it from Delia or Nick Rhodes.

One level dessert spoon of soft brown sugar, dissolve in a small bit of warm water. Add to a large glass of orange or apple juice. Squeeze a whole lemon and a whole lime and tip in. Mix it all together.

You need frozen raspberries, which go in at the end, the rest can be fresh (or frozen).

Pineapple, mango, black grapes (Sable), red grapes, cherries, blackcurrants, redcurrants, blueberries (small), strawberries (small British, not Spanish 'turnips'), blackberries (frozen from hedgerow) and scoop out half a dozen passion fruit and mix in with the juice. Add the frozen raspberries at the end and fold in - they won't break up being frozen.

Try to keep the same size as it is more pleasing that way, so cut the pineapple and mango into half inch maximum chunks.

A lot of berries can be found in the frozen section and they are very good, typically frozen on the farms before collected by the supermarkets.

I do a big bowl on a Friday and friends and family dip in over the weekend - especially the teenage visitors - and there is normally enough left for breakfast on Monday.

I find M and S to be head and shoulders above the rest for quality and taste.
Gpt some sable grapes at Aldi today and they are awful... Not crisp..sour and despite saying seedless, most def have seeds.

For fruits at the moment what countries of origin should I look for?

British. Buy frozen. If we do not support British berries, they will disappear within five years. Like our orchards.

M&S definitely! I find them consistently tastier and last longer.

I’m off there right now!! Hope it’s open actually 😂

You can keep most fruit and salad, once prepared, for over a week in the fridge as long as you follow two rules.

First, lemon juice. Squeeze it into the salad or fruit bowl.

Second, put it to the back and leave it in the same spot.

Moving food around in the fridge means it goes off quicker.

Thank you!!

I’d rather get fresh than frozen personally.

Marks and Spencer's is the best and tastiest

Probably m&s but I can't afford it ha.
Asda's is awful.
Lidl good.
Tesco ok.
Sainsbury's good but expensive.
Aldi OK.

Thank you all! We are on our way to M&S!

M&S have got quite a bit of their fruit on 2 for £4 at the moment.

Any tips for how I know if plums and nectarines etc are good or bad?!

They're normally still firm when you buy them then leave on the windowsill to ripen, eat at your desired softness

M&S are good. I get their easy peelers and grapes as they actually have decent flavour. In fact I've been getting more stuff from there recently as it's not much more expensive but better quality.
Lidl aren't bad - their deluxe blueberries and raspberries are very good. Sainsbury's have good variety, but I'm beginning to despair of finding gooseberries anywhere - i couldn't find any at all last summer other than a little greengrocer when we were staying in Cumbria.

I’d go to a green river if you have one near you. I don’t find supermarket fruit lasts as long these days and whenever I’ve bought nets recently there’s been one piece already rotting.

British supermarkets don’t pay as well as other countries so we get the bottom of the barrel when it comes to buying on the world markets. So it’s best to buy British grown wherever possible.

Nick Rhodes? He's more multitalented than I thought! Perfect lipstick, musician and now fruit salad maker extraordinaire!!!