Thursday, September 23, 2010

Courgette. High Street grocer wins mutation grant (From Evesham Journal) Know.




THE Fruit Salad in High Street is the prizewinner of Transition Pershore Food Group’s head trophy certificate. The bundle carried out a measurement of the five fruit and vegetable suppliers in Pershore in primeval August. It found that only Tesco and Asda had orderly produce. Nearly all the give birth to in the two stores was "gift wrapped" in plastic. Tesco’s labelling was not always tractable to find, mushrooms (grown locally) came from Ireland, onions British and New Zealand, tomatoes fro Hertfordshire and Morocco.



Cherries were from Germany, strawberries from Scotland and raspberries from Hereford. Asda had cabbages and cauliflowers from Lincolnshire, celery from Cambridge, cucumbers from Holland, leeks were labelled British but nearby leeks are not yet available. Onions came from Suffolk and New Zealand, garlic from Spain and potatoes and spinach from Kent. Tomatoes were from Holland and Poland -- none were limited or even UK. Raspberries weren’t adjoining either.






The contemplate found that Ron Dagde labelled very petite but tomatoes, plums, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries were all state Ken & Jen indicate only restricted exhibit so creeper beans, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, lettuce, courgette and potatoes were townsman or English but some tomatoes were from Belgium as well. Plums were specific and strawberries were English. Broad beans, French beans, leeks, root and cocking onions and peppers were not labelled. "The Fruit Salad labelled the whole shebang either Pershore, Pensham, Badsey, Worcester, regional or UK," said grouping colleague Graham Gooderham.



"Fruit not on tap in the Uk was from Spain, Costa Rica or South Africa. "The Fruit Salad was by far the best for labelling all things and for having the most provincial produce. They are creditable winners of Transition Pershore Food Group’s word go presentation certificate.

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