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By FLORENCE VICKERS
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Fresh fruits are generally highest in quality and lowest in price when in season. Choose sound, fresh fruit and buy only what you can use before it spoils. Don’t buy on size alone - larger fruits are not necessarily the best quality or economical. Keep the purpose you have for buying fruits in mind as you shop; if you will use it today, the ripest available would be the best buy, but if you are planning on using it 3 days from now, a ripe fruit might be spoiled.
Don’t pinch fruits while shopping. Rough handling causes spoilage ami waste which causes the grocer financial loss which he passes on to the consumer in higher prices.
When shopping for berries of all kinds, look for a bright, clean appearance and an uniform good color. The individual small cells making up the berry should be plump and tender but not mushy. Look for berries that are fully ripened - with no attached stem caps.
Avoid leaky and moldy berries which will be of poor quality.
Selecting quality melons is a difficult and challenging skill to master. There is no absolute formula, but you can increase the likelihood of success when buying melons by looking for these 3 major signs of full maturity.
1. The stem should be gone leaving a smooth symmetrical shallow basin in the melon.
2. The netting or veining should be thick and bold.
3. The color should be pale and dull and there should be a faint fruity smell.
Peaches should be fairly firm or becoming a trifle soft. The skin color between the red areas should be yellow or at least creamy.
Avoid very firm or hard peaches with a distinctly green color since they will probably be immature and won’t ripen properly. Decay starts in peaches as a pale tan spot which extends in a circle and gradually turns darker in color.
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