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Category: Fruit

Most fruit advice is folklore repeated with confidence. These guides keep the clues that hold up and drop the ones that do not. How to choose a watermelon without the folklore. explains why the field spot and a sound, undamaged rind tell you more than any tapping trick, and what a cut half still needs once it reaches your refrigerator. How to buy strawberries you will want to finish. asks you to turn the container over and look for crushed fruit, escaping juice and damp patches before the top layer persuades you. Both guides end in the same place: buy the quantity your household will eat while it is at its best.

Most fruit advice is folklore repeated with confidence. These guides keep the clues that hold up and drop the ones that do not. How to choose a watermelon without the folklore. explains why the field spot and a sound, undamaged rind tell you more than any tapping trick, and what a cut half still needs once it reaches your refrigerator. How to buy strawberries you will want to finish. asks you to turn the container over and look for crushed fruit, escaping juice and damp patches before the top layer persuades you. Both guides end in the same place: buy the quantity your household will eat while it is at its best.