Valentines Day Gourmet Items

This week we offer ingredients to assist you in cre-

ating a special Valentines Day menu to delight your
guests. Order seasonally vibrant additions like heart-

marketnotes shaped beets from a broad crimson color spectrum.

Gourmet veggies, flowers, and accents need advance
notice. Please contact your sales representative at
Produce Market Report February 7, 2017 least 48 hours ahead of your preferred delivery day.

GOOD BUYS FOR THE WEEK KEEP IN MIND WATCH

Red, Green, & Lunch
Bunch Grapes:
Plentiful and excellent
quality. Chilean grapes
are now here in stock.
Mangos: Fruit from
Ecuador is outstanding!
Asparagus: The shift
from Peru to Mexico is
Cantaloupe & complete and the quality is
Honeydew Melons:
up while the prices have
Grown in Central
come down.
America with excellent
sugar levels and
Cauliflower: Creamy,
ripeness.
crispy and priced to move
with cooler weather in
growing regions.
Green Bell Peppers:
Very large and Jumbo
peppers are plentiful now
from Florida. We are
getting really good prices
on these.
GOOD BUYS
Oranges: California navels Blackberries: Prices still
Grapes are pristine and supplies high and supplies tight from
have loosened up as pickers Mexico.
Mangos can get in groves with rain
Cantaloupes & finished. Lemons: Rains impeded
Honeydews picking schedules and fruit
Cara Cara & Blood grew larger waiting for
Peaches, Nectarines Oranges: Pink pulp and groves to dry out. 165s-200s
Red & Black Plums tight.
sweet juice is yours for the
Clementines taking.
Yellow Squash: The
Green Onions Grapefruit: Higher prices spread on prices between
now from Texas and Florida. Zucchini and yellow
Asparagus
Deep ruby red color and squash is bigger this week.
Cauliflower Strong winds in Florida blew
good sugar.
the blooms off the plants.
Green & Red Peppers This will create future
Raspberries: Steady
gapping.
Eggplant supplies and good quality
from Mexico.
Butternut Squash White & Yellow Corn:
Very cool nights and cooler
days have stunted corn
KEEP IN MIND
growth. Supplies extremely
short-especially on white.
Oranges

Peaches, Nectarines, Grapefruit Green Beans: The same

Red Peppers: Both
Red, & Black Plums:
Florida and Mexico are
Prices continue to drop
sending beautiful red
on very nice quality fruit
peppers our way. Yellows
from Chile. Dont forget
are still in 11 lb. pack.
that Lemon Plums are
the Fruit of the Month
Eggplant: If you want
for February.
deep, dark purple flesh and
firm texture, this is the time
Clementines: Easy-
peel from Spain. These
to buy eggplant.
little beauties are a
Butternut Squash: We
bargain.
are getting these now in
10/12 count packs and the
quality is very good.
People like butternut all
year now and the price is
Broccoli, Crowns &
right.
Iceberg & Romaine
Green Onions: Now Cucumbers: Quality and
back to normal supply supply are very good from
and price levels. Honduras.
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cooler Florida conditions
Raspberries
Strawberries: Florida is have led to a more active
Strawberries market.
producing pretty heart-
Avocados shaped berries. Place your
orders before demand Broccoli, Broccoli
Watermelons
skyrockets. Stem Berries: for Crowns & Florets:
Red, Green Leaf & large quantities, contact your
Florets are especially tight-
Boston lettuce sales rep to get ahead of the we are facing pro-rated
curve.
situation.
WATCH
Blackberries Avocados: No issues now Snow Peas & Sugar
for supply or availability. Snaps: Highly unusual
Lemons
heavy frost in Guatemala
Yellow Squash Red, Green Leaf & has driven prices sky high.
Green Beans Boston Lettuce: Prices
are up slightly but these are Iceberg & Romaine
your better choices for leafy Lettuce: Very active
Florets
greens now. market continues on key
leafy greens as cool and wet
Sugar Snaps & Parsley, Leeks, Cilantro: California weather patterns
Snow Peas Supplies and prices steady. persist.
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