Category: Produce

November is starting to heat up in Australia. With summer (and Christmas) on the horizon, there is plenty of seasonal produce available to ring in the festive season. Australian mangoes are hitting the shelves in record numbers, and other tropical fruit like lychees, papaya and pineapples are in abundance. For vegetables, you can expect to […]

Mango season has officially begun in Australia. Mango trees across the country are brimming with fruit and thousands of cases are being delivered to supermarkets all over the country. They make a delicious summer treat, snack, or ingredient in an endless selection of sweet and savoury dishes and drinks. But how much do you really […]

Spring has truly sprung and Christmas is creeping ever closer. October is known for Halloween and Halloween is known for…you guessed it, pumpkins! However, pumpkins aren’t properly in season in Australia until Autumn. Instead, there are plenty of other delicious vegetables in season in October, like green beans, mushrooms, and asparagus. Here’s the best produce […]

Winter is finally behind us and the supermarket shelves are filling up with fresh spring produce, everything from citrus, bananas, peas, rhubarb, and fennel. It’s already started to warm up, but the season doesn’t officially kick off until after the spring equinox, which generally falls around the 20th – 23rd of September each year. Only […]

Australian’s are very familiar with the pawpaw. Not only is it the main ingredient in one of our most popular beauty/health products (Lucas’ Papaw Ointment), but it’s become synonymous with Australian tropical fruit. We put pawpaw in the spotlight and discover some interesting facts. Origins Pawpaw (and papaya) is native to the tropics of the […]

There aren’t many savoury dishes that can’t be made more delicious with the addition of garlic. It has been used for centuries as a seasoning and flavouring, but also as a traditional medicine. Garlic is a close relative of onion, shallot, leek and chive, with the bulbous root a part of the onion genus, Allium. […]

Olives are a staple of the Mediterranean diet, and are the source of what a lot of Italians claim is the key to good health and a long life. But olives have more to offer than olive oil, they make a great snack, a cooking ingredient, on their own or stuffed. The small, oval fruit […]

Winter is often thought of as a less “plentiful” time of year for produce, but there is still heaps of selection at the supermarket or greengrocer. But if winter does get you down, particularly with all those winter bugs and flus floating around, then you don’t have to worry. August is the perfect time for […]

We’re in the thick of winter, and the nights and early mornings are definitely quite frosty. But that doesn’t mean there’s not delicious fresh produce hitting our supermarket shelves all over the country. It’s the root vegetables’ time to shine, with the likes of carrots, beetroot, sweet potato, potato, pumpkin, turnips, and parsnips all in […]

People often disregard artichokes because the process of eating them can seem too hard. They do look a little intimidating, with their hard, green outer leaves, but lovers of artichoke say that no other vegetable compares. But there’s a few deceptive things about artichokes. Firstly, they’re not actually a vegetable, instead they’re part of the […]