Bruised fruit, but it's only skin deep

GROWERS are hoping that consumers will discover the beauty of fruit and vegetables is more than skin deep as crops affected by recent wild weather begin to hit supermarket shelves.

Rise in the East

HIJAZI'S FELAFEL

No good reason for high banana prices

The increased revenue from fruit and vegetables will go to growers who have not been affected by floods and cyclones, writes Saul Eslake.

They've gone bananas

Fruit and vegetable growers untouched by cyclone or flood are being plain greedy, and exploitative, in increasing their prices.

Roughage and tumble

Do the solids left over from juicing vegetables such as tomatoes, celery and carrots have any value for use in stocks, soups and stews? P. Mather

...AND ANOTHER THING

Nick Riewoldt says external forces "are trying to break us down". Gee, I would have thought some inside the club weren't doing a bad job either. Bryan Fraser, St Kilda