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Fresh Produce Weekly Report
Fresh Connection 02 November 2021 2 Market Overview Welcome to November! A bit of a mixed bag this week with some products coming on strong and some big shortages as well, this time of year with change of seasons tends to be a bit like that in the produce game. We are still waiting on the spring weather, have not seen a lot of it yet and that is playing a big part in some of the challenges we are facing with supply but hopefully now that we have hit November we will see this turn around in time for Christmas. Great to finally have both Strawberries and Blueberries in stock for those of you who have missed your fresh berries.
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Hot Deals This Week
*Valid for orders invoiced from Tuesday 02/11/21 to Monday 08/11/21
Fresh Connection Red Chillies Fresh Connection Red Kumara Fresh Connection Telegraph
Cucumber
$25.00 per kg $2.95 per kg
Article 5276390 Article 5276871 $1.45 per kg
Article 5276271
Fresh Connection Beauregard Fresh Connection Strawberries
Kumara $3.95 per punnet
$2.95 per kg Article 5276997
Article 5276869
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Fresh Vegetables
PRODUCT AVAILABILITY QUALITY COMMENT
Potato Just transitioning into new season now so supply can be a little bit
messy for the next few weeks
Pumpkin Stored product is starting to get rots so supply is tight and will get
harder from here
Tomato Supply is now back to normal
Kumara Reds, Beauregard and gold all available in good quantities
Broccoli Supply looking stable for this week
Cauliflower Good supply for this week
Cucumber Good supply and consistent quality
Good Marginal Challenging
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Fresh Fruits
PRODUCT AVAILABILITY QUALITY COMMENT
Banana Bobby’s will be back in stock mid-week
Mandarin New Zealand Nuggets are finished for the season and we are now into
Encore variety
Grapes Stock available but supplies are short and quality is not great
Kiwifruit Fruit has been stored for some time now and prices starting to lift, gold
has gone very short
Honeydew & Only very limited and very expensive air freight crop available
Rock Melon
Pineapple Supply is now back to normal
Apple Quality is starting to drop off with the crop being stored for so long, not
too bad at this stage
Pear Fresh new season NZ Packham pears back in stock now
Lemon Starting to slow down with supply now we are at the end of the season
Good Marginal Challenging
Fresh Connection 02 November 2021 6 Seasonal Update • Fresh strawberries and blueberries now in stock • Potato: We are right on the transition to new season with gourmets being the first available, we still are having to use both new and old season depending on availability over the next few weeks so quality can move around a bit, the old season may have small sprouts starting to come through. We do increase our quality checks on all the old season crop but we can’t open all the bags so please let us know if any sprouted spuds get through. • Courgettes have been impacted by wet weather and poor light and have got extremely short as have leeks and celery so keep an eye on them they have shot up in price • Fresh peas are now in stock, still very new season and pricing reflects that but they should come back quickly once we get some sunshine. • MPI have picked up seeds in the shipments of beans so it has been put on hold so expect possible shortages on these this week.
Fresh Connection 02 November 2021 7 Did you know? Chili peppers are the fruits of Capsicum pepper plants, noted for their hot flavour and are native to South and Central America. Chili peppers were domesticated more than 6,000 years ago in Mexico, in the region that extends across southern Puebla and northern Oaxaca to southeastern Veracruz. They were one of the first self-pollinating crops cultivated in Mexico, Central America, and parts of South America. In early civilisations such as the Incas, Mayans and Aztecs chilli peppers were used as a currency. Chili was brought to the rest of the world by Christopher Columbus who discovered America in 1493. Christopher had set from Spain to reach India to bring spices such as pepper back to his country. Christopher not only mistook America for India, but also mistook chili as the black pepper. That is how the chili got the name ‘chili pepper.’ Chili quickly spread to rest of the European countries and chili became the indispensable spice in European cuisines. In 1498, the Portuguese explorer Vasco-da-Gama reached Indian shores bringing with him the pungent spice. Chili seeds were brought to North America for cultivation. In 1888, experiments began for cross breeding of chili plants and there are more than 400 different varieties of chilies found all over the world. Many of the most-common chili peppers are cultivars of Capsicum annuum, including the cayenne, jalapeño, serrano, and Thai chili peppers. Some of the hottest chili peppers include are cultivars of C. chinense, including the habanero, the Carolina reaper, and the ghost chili pepper, or bhut jolokia, The intensity of the “heat” of chili peppers is commonly reported in Scoville heat units (SHU).
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