The Good Fruit Guide

Here is the Good Fruit Guide recommendation for the best fruit to buy in July (sorry for the delay!).

Best Fruit on Sale Archives - Good Fruit Guide The Best Fruit For July Best Fruit on Sale / Nick Ball The best fresh fruit on sale in July  July is a month of subtle change. What began in the early summer in southern Europe, gradually rolls north, so we see our own fruit being produced locally or at least in our own country. The same is experie...

What a difference! Two Egyptian black grapes in Morrisons: Arra Mystic Bloom and Mystic Charm. The first is succulent, very juicy and sweet; the second is crisp, crunchy and limited in sweetness.

The best month of the year for berries is upon us! June is the natural peak season for strawberries, among others, and they are looking very good in the stores, despite the glum weather.

Click this link for the best berries and other fruit to buy in June: there is plenty to enjoy!

The Best Fruit for June - Good Fruit Guide The best fresh fruit to buy in June in the United Kingdom are berries such as raspberries, strawberries and blueberries.

Interesting to see Egyptian blueberries in Waitrose, though sad that these were soft and mouldy. I'm sure there will be plenty available of great quality and I've been unlucky, but look closely if you are buying. Avoid any sign of white mould in the calyx.

These are classic Thompson Seedless from India (found in M+S): lovely pale green straw colour, bold berries, firm bite, and deep sweetness: the best of an old stalwart variety.

In my local south Asian store today: delicious Kesar mango from India. £9.50 for a small box of 5-6 fruit or £20 per large box of 12 fruit. Hopefully you can do better, but, for me, the taste makes it worthwhile.

As the Sun starts shining, here is the Good Fruit Guide's recommended Best Fruit for May:

The Best Fruit for May - Good Fruit Guide The best fresh fruit to buy in May in the UK.

April can be a bit tricky for the fruit business, with old seasons ending and new seasons beginning. However, there is still some lovely fruit to be found and this guide should help:

The Best Fruit for April - Good Fruit Guide The best fruit on sale in April in the UK.

Another lesser-known apple worthy of consideration, now on late season shelves, is the yellow variety, Opal. This is a descendant of Golden Delicious, but far superior - in my view!

Here is the new entry on the Good Fruit Guide:

Opal (UEB 3264/2) - Good Fruit Guide Opal is a lovely, crisp and sweet yellow apple. It has Golden Delicious as a parent, but is a far superior apple to eat.

As the northern hemisphere apple season enters its last hurrah, it's interesting to see what long-stored varieties each supermarket chooses to stock as extras. In Asda, they have LoliPop and Honeycrisp from France, alongside Cherish from UK.

Here is a new Good Fruit Guide entry for LoliPop, a sweet, dense red variety bred in France, ideal for organic agriculture.

LoliPop (Story Inored) - Good Fruit Guide LoliPop is an intensely red coloured apple with sweet dense flesh and low acidity.

The best fruit to buy in the UK in March is now published on the Good Fruit Guide.
https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/best-fruit-on-sale/best-fruit-in-march/

Looking through the grapes in Morrisons, I found this variety of red grape for the first time, grown in South Africa. Look out for it, as it is deliciously flavoursome. Here are the details:

Bebop (IFG Thirty-Seven) - Good Fruit Guide Bebop (IFG Thirty-seven) is a very sweet red seedless grape with a lovely flavour and attractive crunchy skin.

A new pigmented orange has appeared, from Spain, in M&S. Here are the details:

Onix - Good Fruit Guide Onix is a blood orange from Spain with extraordinarily intense pigmentation.

New information about fruit varieties in February: Ataulfo mangoes and RegalYou (Candine) apples.
https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/product/ataulfo/
https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/product/regalyou-candine/

RegalYou (Candine) - Good Fruit Guide RegalYou® is a medium to large size bi-coloured apple with an obloid, round to slightly flattened shape. The skin colour is a lovely, attractive, luminous pink-red blush over pale red-orange background. The skin is smooth and has prominent, but fairly sparse yellow lenticels and there is often a sl...

The best fruit to buy in the UK in February is now published on the Good Fruit Guide.

The Best Fruit for February - Good Fruit Guide The best fresh fruit on sale in February in the UK.

The latest variety upload to the Good Fruit Guide is a mango: Palmer. This mango comes to the UK from Brazil and has a good flavour as well as the requisite sweetness that we expect from the fruit:

Palmer - Good Fruit Guide Palmer mango, usually from Brazil when sold in Europe and UK. A sweet mango with a mild but satisfying flavour.

Latest variety upload to the Good Fruit Guide:

Magic Star (Kentish Kiss, SQ159, Natyra, Sprank) - Good Fruit Guide Magic Star is a bi-coloured apple with a distinct elongated shape, tapering towards the stylar-end (long-conical). The blush is a striped red colouration over-laying a pale-yellow background. Often, there is slight russeting in the stalk cavity. The flesh is pale cream-yellow and has a crisp/crackin...

For a guide to the best fruit to buy in January in the UK, click this link:

The Best Fruit For January - Good Fruit Guide January is a wonderful month for citrus, grapes and apples, all at their best as the month continues into February.

It's a fantastic year for blackberrying. The hedgerows of North Norfolk are laden with huge quantities of fruit, and it is unusual in quality being firm, full of flavour and not overly sweet. Get them while you can!

Beautiful fruit on sale in the UK: try this new Valencia orange, Gusocora from South Africa. Sweet, firm and juicy, and a great end-of-season variety.

https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/product/gusocora-valencia/

Gusocora Valencia – Good Fruit Guide Gusocora is a mid-season Valencia-type seedless orange. It has medium to large size fruit with a round to oval shape. The peel is slightly pebbled and of medium thickness, and achieves a deep orange colouration when mature. Peeling the fruit is similar to other Valencia-types, i.e. fairly tough, but...

Why do I keep buying supermarket ripe and ready twin packs of mangoes? Invariably, one never ripens properly, or goes mouldy. Case in point.....Brazilian Keitt from (could be any retailer)!

Beautiful fruit on sale in the UK: try this late season grape from Spain, in Tesco Finest: sumptuous Kelly.

https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/product/kelly-sheegene-18/

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Kelly (Sheegene 18) - Good Fruit Guide Kelly is a green seedless grape with medium to large berries. The shape is round to slightly elongate (ovate), and the skin is pale, almost translucent green which graduates to straw coloured with maturity. The berry texture on biting is light and crisp with good amounts of juice, while the taste se...

Beautiful fruit on sale in the UK: the best fruit in October from the Good Fruit Guide.

https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/best-fruity-picks/the-best-fruit-to-buy-this-october/

The Best Fruit to Buy This October - Good Fruit Guide The full opulence of fruit as the product of long summer sunshine comes to the fore in October as harvests are completed and choice of varieties reaches its peak. Apples, pears, persimmons, figs, kiwiberries, satsumas and grapes are all beneficiaries: it’s a privilege to live in a country where su...

New season Spanish satsumas are on sale, variety Iwasaki. These may not be pretty, but are deliciously fresh, juicy, tangy and sweet.

Tarocco with a navel? Not likely. This is probably a Cara Cara Navel, slipped in the pack as a substitute pigmented orange and has no where near the flavour of a true Tarocco. Not the Best at Morrisons!

Gorgeous grapes: Spanish and Italian grapes are wonderful at the moment. M&S are excelling with their range, including K2 Mango grape, and Tesco have lovely Finest with Sweet Celebration, Sweet Globe and Sable, but all supermarkets have something to enjoy.

Lovely English plums are on sale in the orchards of Leigh House, near Burnhan Overy Town in North Norfolk: a journey through the delights of early to late season varieties. Greengages are ready soon as well!

www.leithorchards.com

A plum performance awaitens everyone going to see All That, written by and directed by , at the King's Head in Islington. 😘

Beautiful fruit in August in the UK:

The best fruit to buy recommendations from the Good Fruit Guide.

https://goodfruitguide.co.uk/best-fruity-picks/the-best-fruit-to-buy-this-august/

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The Best Fruit To Buy This August - Good Fruit Guide There is nothing quite like the honeyed sweetness of greengages or the juicy fleshiness of peaches or the fragrance of strawberries, except perhaps the sheer delight of plump, irresistible cherries. No other month is quite the same in its choice of fruit as August.

Fruit Picks for July -

Fruit Picks for July As the summer months settle into normality, we pass the equinox and look towards the unfolding of all the pent-up energy of warmth and growth that the high sun brings. July is a month of subtle change as what began in the early summer in southern Europe rolls north with sumptuous results. We see our...