The Veggie Index: Broccoli, cauliflower, and mandarins this week’s best buys in New Zealand

Published Apr 21, 2023

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The Herald has initiated a new weekly series, The Veggie Index, in response to rising food prices, aiming to highlight affordable fruit and vegetables through the guidance of United Fresh. This series will offer readers a guide to sensible purchasing decisions by providing an overview of the most cost-effective produce available each week. For this week, United Fresh highlights cauliflower, broccoli, and mandarins as excellent value options, with cauliflower benefiting from an abundant supply and broccoli taking advantage of favorable growing conditions. The mandarin season is in full swing, promising large volumes and sizes due to generous summer rains, despite some challenges from excessive rainfall. This series aims to help consumers navigate the ongoing challenge of high food inflation, which remains steep at 6.7% for the year to March 2023, significantly impacting the cost of living.

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As food prices continue to rise, the Herald has started a new weekly series - The Veggie Index - highlighting this week’s good value fruit and vegetables. With the help of United Fresh, a non-profit produce industry association, the series aims to help readers know which fruit and veggies are a good buy that week and why. Each week, United Fresh will provide their picks of the best fruit and vegetables on supermarket shelves. Cauliflower stays on the last as one of the week’s best buys, joining broccoli and mandarins. United Fresh president Jerry Prendergast said cauliflower was again a good buy this weekend with plentiful supply and expected prices between $3.50 and $5 each. The prices are expected to increase after the weekend. Prendergast says broccoli growing conditions have been “exceptional” for broccoli with the crop being planted after the late January and early February weather events. “Great price and good size heads.” Price points are expected to be between $2 to $2.50 ...

Source: Nzherald