This summer's fruits are "nice" quality but expensive - here's how to choose the best cuts

As a feature of the festive table, at a cricket competition in the backyard, or as a sweet treat for a day at the beach, fresh fruit is sure to be a staple. 'honor.
Until it is, that is.
The experience of biting into a cherry or taking a piece off a piece of watermelon can be messed up when the fruit doesn't quite taste good.
But the fruit experts are here to help, with tips and tricks for choosing the best fruits on the supermarket shelves.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to search, up and down arrows for volume. Producer Ben Martin explains how to choose the best mango.(Rural: Lucy Cooper)
Cherries and stone fruits
Wet weather has damaged stone fruits in major growing areas of Queensland, New Wales South and Victoria.
“In recent months, stone fruit growers and cherry growers have had a very difficult time,” said the general manager of e Reid Fruits in Tasmania, Tim Reid.
“But.. . there's going to be a lot of beautiful fruit coming to market."
Reid said the skin and stem are the best indicators of cherry freshness.
"You should look for shiny skin and ideally the stem of the cherry is green, that's the main show of freshness," he said.
Expect to pay significantly more for cherries this summer as wet weather has affected supply .(ABC Rural: Lucy Cooper)

Av With a warmer-than-average summer forecast, it will be harder to keep the cherries fresh, but Reid said there is a simple solution.
"If you buy good quality cherries and you seal them in a container, put them in the back of your fridge and they will keep very well for a few weeks,” he said.
"When you're about to eat them, take them out and let them warm to room temperature. This will bring out all the flavor."
Stone fruits land on your countertop from a range of growing regions in Australia.
The best advice from Larry Griffin, manager of Townsville-based fruit and vegetable wholesaler Simon George and Sons, is that plums are best eaten this summer.

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This summer's fruits are "nice" quality but expensive - here's how to choose the best cuts

As a feature of the festive table, at a cricket competition in the backyard, or as a sweet treat for a day at the beach, fresh fruit is sure to be a staple. 'honor.

Until it is, that is.

The experience of biting into a cherry or taking a piece off a piece of watermelon can be messed up when the fruit doesn't quite taste good.

But the fruit experts are here to help, with tips and tricks for choosing the best fruits on the supermarket shelves.

Cherries and stone fruits

Wet weather has damaged stone fruits in major growing areas of Queensland, New Wales South and Victoria.

“In recent months, stone fruit growers and cherry growers have had a very difficult time,” said the general manager of e Reid Fruits in Tasmania, Tim Reid.

“But.. . there's going to be a lot of beautiful fruit coming to market."

Reid said the skin and stem are the best indicators of cherry freshness.

"You should look for shiny skin and ideally the stem of the cherry is green, that's the main show of freshness," he said.

Av With a warmer-than-average summer forecast, it will be harder to keep the cherries fresh, but Reid said there is a simple solution.

"If you buy good quality cherries and you seal them in a container, put them in the back of your fridge and they will keep very well for a few weeks,” he said.

"When you're about to eat them, take them out and let them warm to room temperature. This will bring out all the flavor."

Stone fruits land on your countertop from a range of growing regions in Australia.

The best advice from Larry Griffin, manager of Townsville-based fruit and vegetable wholesaler Simon George and Sons, is that plums are best eaten this summer.