Understanding What To Look For When Picking Fruits

It can sometimes be difficult to know exactly what you are looking for when you are shopping for fruit at the grocery store, and this can be frustrating, as you will sometimes come home with a week's worth of fruit that is actually not worth eating at all. For this reason, it is good to know the tricks for selecting good fruit, and while there are lots of different types of fruit – and while there are lots of different fruits to select from – here are the most important things to look for when selecting three of the most popular fruits: apples, oranges, and bananas.

Apples: It can somtimes be a bit more difficult to pick apples than to pick other fruits, as color is not the clearest indicator of whether an apple is good or not; as you go through the bin of apples, spend a bit of time with each apple before you put it in the bag – making sure that there are no black spots on the apple, no severe bruises, and no extreme discoloration, so that you do not end up with one of those “bad apples that spoils the bunch.”

Oranges: oranges are a bit easier than apples, as you can already eliminate about half the oranges in the bin simply by looking at color, as the brighter the orange of the skin, the juicier the orange is likely to be; as you pick up oranges that are a bright orange color, you will want to look for oranges that are mostly firm, as these will be the ones that are still holding their juice.

Bananas: And it will mostly come down to what you are looking for when you are shopping for bananas; if you are wanting to eat your bananas right away, pick out bananas that are already yellow, but if you are wanting to wait a little while before eating bananas, you will be just fine picking out bananas that are still green.

Making sure you are selecting good fruit can sometimes be a bit of work, but when you get this good fruit home and it is available to you to eat, it will be well worth the effort!