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Green Chillies – 100g
A spice without which Indian cuisine would be incomplete, the most common variety of chilli used apart from red is the green. These are used with or without the stalks, whole or chopped, with seeds or deseeded. They are used fresh, dried, powdered, pickled or in sauces. Green chillies may be fiery, but they have numerous benefits to offer. In fact, more than the thick green skin, it is the seeds that give you a spicy flavour. According to Macrobiotic Nutritionist and Health Coach Shilpa Arora, “Green chillies are loaded with vitamin C and the seeds are excellent to speed metabolism.
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Fresh Beetroot – A Bunch
A favourite in 1970s British salads (cooked and pickled in vinegar), beetroot is a root vegetable with dark purple skin and pink/purple flesh. It has also enjoyed something of a deserved comeback in recent years – its earthy, rich, sweet flavour and vibrant colour lends itself to a variety of both sweet and savoury dishes. Beetroot is a close relative of spinach and chard, and has good nutritional content – it’s also reckoned to be a good detoxifier. -
Cucumber – Each
Cucumber, Cucumis sativus, is a warm season, vining, annual plant in the family Cucurbitaceae grown for its edible cucumber fruit. Wonderful in just about anything that needs a cooling crunchy effect
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King Edward Potatoes – 1kg
The King Edward has a variety of culinary uses and is renowned for its light fluffy texture. For this reason it is particularly suitable for roasting, mashed potato or baking, although it is also suitable for chipping, sautéing and steaming
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Bunch Of Asparagus
Labour-intensive to grow, asparagus are the young shoots of a cultivated lily plant. They’re considered to be one of the delicacies of the vegetable world, with a price tag to match, and have a distinct, intense savoury flavour. Sprue is the term for young, very slender asparagus. While French asparagus is purple, the British and American varieties are green. In contrast, Spanish, and much Dutch asparagus, is white because it’s grown beneath the soil and cut just as the tips emerge. All types pack a nutritious punch, with high levels of vitamins A and C, potassium, iron and calcium.
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Jerusalem Artichokes – 500g
This vegetable is not truly an artichoke, but a variety of sunflower with a lumpy, brown-skinned tuber that often resembles a ginger root. Contrary to what the name implies, this vegetable has nothing to do with Jerusalem, but is derived instead from the Italian word for sunflower, girasole. Its white flesh is nutty, sweet and crunchy, and is a good source of iron. Jerusalem artichokes are also known as sunchokes. Can be crisped with rosemary and garlic, are wonderful in a truffle soup and delicious alongside lemon roast guinea fowl
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Sugar Snap – 100g
The snap pea, also known as the sugar snap pea, is an edible-pod pea with rounded pods and thick pod walls, also called mangetout (French for “eat all”)
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Padron Pepper – 100g
That quintessential Spanish snack where, within mostly mild, aromatic peppers you may find one or two very hot ones. Toss in olive oil & salt and serve immediately
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Baking Potatoes (Russets) – 1kg
A russet potato is a type of potato that is large, with dark brown skin and dry, white flesh. Best suited to baking, mashing or French fries/ chips/ wedges.
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Sweet Red Kapya Peppers – 1kg
In the same family as the bell pepper, this mild 4-5 inch pepper has a distinctive sweetness. This pepper is a native of Eastern Europe and, in fact, is the main flavour ingredient in Hungarian Paprika. It’s a great addition to salad, roasted or simply tossed in a quality olive oil with pasta.
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Red Radish – Bunch
The root of a member of the mustard family, radishes have a peppery flavour and a crisp, crunchy texture. Among the most popular varieties are the small, cherry-sized common variety which has a red skin and white flesh (the French Breakfast radish is a variation on this type, and has an elongated shape with a deep pink skin that fades to white at the roots). You can also find black radishes, popular in eastern Europe, which are more strongly flavoured, as well as large white mooli or diakon radishes, which are shaped like carrots. They are popular in Asian cookery and have a very mild flavour. Radishes are rich is folic acid and potassium and are a good source of vitamin B6, magnesium, riboflavin, and calcium. Radish tops too are edible and offer many culinary possibilities.
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Mini Cucumbers – 1kg
Miniature cucumbers are just a few inches long at maturity, and most are only an inch or so wide. Some cultivars have smooth skin while others have skin that’s pimpled and spined.
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Spring Onions – Bunch
Also known as scallions or green onions, spring onions are in fact very young onions, harvested before the bulb has had a chance to swell. Both the long, slender green tops and the small white bulb are edible, and are good either raw or cooked. They have a similar flavour to onions, but are much milder.
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Yellow Courgettes – 1kg
Courgettes (or Zucchini in the U.S.) are a type of summer squash. It can be prepared using a variety of cooking techniques, including steamed, boiled, grilled, stuffed and baked, barbecued and fried, they are also great for soufflés and even cakes. They are low in saturated fat, and very low in cholesterol and sodium. They are also a good source of thiamine, Niacin and Pantothenic Acid, and a very good source of Dietary Fibre, Protein, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Folate, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Zinc, Copper and Manganese.
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Carrot Bunch
The carrot, with its distinctive bright orange colour, is one of the most versatile root vegetables around – a result of its sweet flavour, which means it can be used raw or cooked, in sweet or savoury dishes. That old wive’s tale about carrots helping you see in the dark isn’t entirely off-target; they’re very high in beta-carotene, which is an important nutrient for maintaining healthy eyes.
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Shallot Onion – 1kg
Related to the onion (as opposed to being a younger version of it), shallots grow in clusters at the leaf base. Most varieties are smaller than onions, have finer layers and contain less water. The flavour of a shallot is much milder and sweeter than that of an onion, so if a recipe specifies shallots, substituting onions won’t give the same results. Their lower water content means they need to be cooked more gently than onions.
£2.80Shallot Onion – 1kg
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Radicchio – 500g
Radicchio’s red and white leaves add colour and a bitter flavour to salads. An Italian relative of chicory, radicchio is a forced crop and has distinctive red and white leaves. The exact nature of its colouring depends upon how much light it has been exposed to when growing – if none at all, the contrast between the white ribs and the deep red leaves will be very strong. If it has seen some light, the white and red will be softened with patches of green or copper. Shaped like a small cabbage, it’s mainly used in salads, and its bitter flavour contrasts well with milder leaves such as rocket. The leaves themselves are tender but the heads are sturdy enough to be cut and grilled.
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Fine Beans – 100g
Fine beans are the unripe, young fruit and protective pods of various cultivars of the common bean.
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Pak Choi – 200g
Also known as bok choy or Chinese celery cabbage, pak choi is a leafy vegetable that is delicious added to stir fries. This member of the cabbage family has a number of different names, including pak choi, bok choy, horse’s ear, Chinese celery cabbage and white mustard cabbage. Its structure looks like a squat celery, with either white or very pale green short, chunky stalks and glossy, deep green leaves. The texture of both leaves and stalks is crisp, and the flavour is somewhere between mild cabbage and spinach. If very young it can be eaten raw in salads, but is best when briefly cooked.
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Button Mushrooms
White button are the most common and least expensive mushrooms to appear on grocery store shelves. They have a mild taste and can be used in just about anything from salads to sauces. Button mushroom flavor intensifies when cooked, making them ideal for sautéing and grilling.
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Green Pepper – 500g
Green bell peppers are the immature fruit of the bell pepper plant. They’re blocky in shape, with three or four lobes, and have firm, thick walls with small seeds and a hollow interior. They have a grassy, slightly bitter flavor that sweetens in cooking.£1.79Green Pepper – 500g
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Tenderstem Broccoli
Tenderstem Broccoli – totally packed with nutrients, is easy to prepare and has a nice mild flavor. Since many other of the healthiest green vegetables have strong bitter flavors (such as kale, chard and spinach), broccoli’s milder flavor gives it a serious advantage.
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Chestnut Mushrooms – 500g
With a similar appearance to a button mushroom, chestnuts are darker coloured, stronger tasting and have a meatier texture
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Cavolo Nero – 250g
Cavolo nero is a loose-leafed cabbage from Tuscany. The leaves are a very dark green, almost black, hence its name, which translates as ‘black cabbage’. It has a pleasantly tangy, bitter flavour, with a sweet aftertaste.
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Baby New Potatoes – 1kg
New potatoes have thin, wispy skins and a crisp, waxy texture. They are young potatoes and unlike their fully grown counterparts, they keep their shape once cooked and cut. They are also sweeter because their sugar has not yet converted into starch, and are therefore particularly suited to salads.
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Leeks – 1kg
Leeks are a truly versatile vegetable. They have a milder, sweeter flavour than onions and a smooth texture similar to asparagus. Leeks are a good source of vitamins A, C and K. They also contain minerals such as iron and manganese.
£2.49Leeks – 1kg
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Spinach Bunch
Used in almost every cuisine across the world, spinach is an enormously popular green vegetable. The leaves can be either flat or slightly ruffled, and are a bright green when young, deepening to a more intense colour when older. The bitter flavour is distinctive – you either love it or hate it – and particularly complements dairy products and eggs. The milder, young leaves can be eaten raw in a salad, while the older ones are usually cooked (spinach has one of the shortest cooking times of all vegetables). It reduces very dramatically during cooking; a 450g bag will be just enough for two people.
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Smoked Garlic Bulb – 1pc
Smoked garlic cloves are used to stuff roast chicken, enhance gravy and mayonnaise, mash into butter to make finger-licking garlic bread, or use to crown steaks and Portobello mushrooms for delicious vegetarian garlic recipes.
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Pointed Cabbage – 1pc
A pointed cabbage has a milder flavour and tender texture than other cabbages. Can be eaten raw in many fresh tasty salads, steamed, stir fried or pickled.
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Savoy Cabbage – 1pc
Savoy cabbage is a large and dense, loose-headed green that is round to ovate in shape, distinguished by its heavily textured, crinkled leaves. Considered one of the best cabbages to cook with
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Celeriac – 1pc
Raw, celeriac has fantastic crunch and a super nutty, celery-like flavour that makes it perfect for salads and slaws. Cooked, it takes on a slight sweetness that works well mashed, baked, roasted or boiled.
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Fennel – 1kg
Like Marmite, fennel is something that you either love or hate. Its strong aniseed flavour leaves no room for the middle ground. From the same family as the herb and seed of the same name, it’s also known as Florence fennel, finocchio, or sweet fennel, is very popular in Italian cookery, and has a bulb-like shape that looks a little like a heavy-bottomed celery. When eaten raw, the texture is crisp and the flavour is quite assertive. Cooked, it’s softer and more mellow.
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Cherry tomatos – 200g
The cherry tomato is a type of small round tomato believed to be an intermediate genetic admixture between wild currant-type tomatoes and domesticated garden tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes range in size from a thumbtip up to the size of a golf ball, and can range from spherical to slightly oblong in shape.
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Chicory – 500g
hicories (Cichorium intybus) are a family of hardy and bitter-flavored leafy vegetables that are closely related to lettuce and come into season in the late fall. In salads, they pair well with rich cheeses, nuts, and fruits—but their hardiness also lends themselves to sautéed and roasted applications. They can also be deliciously braised in white wine and French herbs
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Oyster Mushrooms – 100g
Oyster mushrooms, the common name for the species Pleurotus ostreatus, are one of the most common types of cultivated mushrooms in the world. They’re also known as pearl oyster mushrooms or tree oyster mushrooms. The funghi grow naturally on and near trees in temperate and subtropic forests around the world, and they’re grown commercially in many countries. Oyster mushrooms are eaten in a variety of cuisines and are especially popular in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cooking. They can be dried and are typically eaten cooked. Oyster mushrooms are beloved the world over for their delicate texture and mild, savory flavor.
£1.00Oyster Mushrooms – 100g
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Yellow Peppers – 500g
Yellow peppers can be used much like red or orange peppers. They are similarly sweet but have a milder taste. They roast up beautifully and keep their lovely yellow hue when cooked.
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Shiitake Mushroom – 100g
The shiitake is a highly-regarded. edible mushroom native to East Asia, which is cultivated and consumed in many East Asian countries. It is considered a medicinal mushroom and is well known for its immunity boosting properties.
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Red Potatoes – 1kg
Red potatoes are small to medium in size and are round. When cooked, Red potatoes have a waxy and dense texture with a mild, buttery, earthy flavour.
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Portobello Mushroom
Portobello Mushrooms are richly flavoured, meaty, with a large, flat, dark brown cap that grows up to 5 inches in diameter when mature.
£1.99Portobello Mushroom
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Baby Spinach – 200g
Baby spinach has small, delicate leaves that wilt quickly when cooked, and has a much milder taste that mature spinach. For this reason it is best used in salads or as a side garnish
£1.30Baby Spinach – 200g
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Red Chicory – 200g
Chicory works best in composed salads rather than tossed with other, softer leaves. Raw chicory leaves are excellent eaten fresh, drizzled with a little vinaigrette, or stir-fried and served as a vegetable side dish. Whole heads of chicory can be baked, poached or griddled.
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Green Avocados – 1pc
The green avocado is a type of avocado that is less common in the world than its counterpart, the black avocado. While the black color on avocados sometimes does happen as a result of the fruit ripening, other types of cultivated avocados do remain green in color as they get ripe.£1.40Green Avocados – 1pc
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Curly Kale – 400g
A member of the cabbage family, kale comes in two forms: kale, which has smooth leaves, and curly kale, which has crinkly leaves. Curly kale is the most common of the two. Instead of forming a head, the leaves grow in a loose rosette at the top of a stem. Strong flavoured, packed with nutrients, it is best boiled or steamed
£1.60Curly Kale – 400g
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Broccoli – 1kg
Broccoli – full of nutrients, easy to prepare and an excellent source of iron
£3.29Broccoli – 1kg
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Cherry Plum Tomatoes – 200g
Expertly grown and selected for their robust flavour and juicy texture. Developed by trusted growers, this plum variety is specially selected for their rich flavour and succulence. Harvested by hand at the peak of ripeness ensuring each tomato is bursting with flavour. Perfect for sauces, salsas and tomato pastes.
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Celery With Leaf – 1pc
Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity. It has a very mildly bitter taste and a texture that’s both crisp and succulent and is eaten either raw or cooked. Plenty of health benefits.
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Parsnips – 1kg
The fact that the parsnip is a member of the carrot family comes as no surprise – it looks just like one, aside from its creamy white colour. It has an earthy but sweet flavour and is great used in hearty winter roasts, soups and stews.
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Maris Piper Potatoes – 1kg
Maris Piper has a fluffy texture and is considered an “all-rounder” potato. It is widely used to make chips (French fries) due to it having high dry matter and low reducing sugars. As well as being sold fresh, the variety is also suitable for processing into frozen or dehydrated products.£0.99 -
White Cabbage – 1kg
Serve white cabbage in a variety of crunchy slaws and salads. This crisp leaf can also be cooked in gratins and fermented to make sauerkraut.
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Butternut Squash – 1kg
Butternut squash is a type of winter squash that grows on a vine. It has a sweet, nutty taste similar to that of a pumpkin. Great for soups or roasted
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Carrots – 1kg
Carrots are a good source of several vitamins and minerals, especially biotin, potassium, and vitamins A (from beta carotene), K1 (phylloquinone), and B6.
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Aubergines – 1kg
Aubergines are an excellent source of dietary fibre. They are also a good source of vitamins B1 and B6 and potassium. In addition it is high in the minerals copper, magnesium and manganese.
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Sweet Potatoes – 1kg
Sweet potatoes have a creamy texture and a sweet-spicy flavour that makes them ideal for savoury dishes. There are two types, one with bright orange flesh, the other with pale cream flesh. Sweet potatoes are native to the tropical Americas and are sometimes referred to as ‘yams’ in the USA. These tubers are rich in fibre, vitamins A, C and B6, and an excellent source of carbohydrates. The orange-fleshed variety are also rich in betacarotene.
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Vine Tomatoes – 500g
The description vine tomatoes may be confused with the term vine-ripened tomatoes. The latter refers to any tomatoes which are picked when ripe, i.e. they ripen on the plant. All British tomatoes are vine-ripened as they have only a short distance to travel to market.
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Turnips – 1kg
Turnips are creamy white in colour with a lovely purple, red or greenish upper part where the taproot has been exposed to sunlight. Like swedes, turnips are a root vegetable and member of the cabbage family. They’re a good source of vitamin C and, before the arrival of the potato, turnips were one of the main sources of sustenance for the English peasantry. Baby turnips are the size of large radishes and have a sweet, delicate taste, while winter turnips are more pungent and peppery. Turnip leaves or ‘greens’ can also be boiled, steamed, stir-fried or grated into salads.
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Cyprus Potatoes – 1kg
The distinctive red clay soil of Cyprus is perfect for growing potatoes and yields this versatile, thin-skinned potato. It’s popular for its good, earthy flavour. Cyprus potatoes are ideal for boiling and baking, and they also make very good chips.
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Courgettes – 1kg
The courgette is a variety of cucurbit, which means it’s from the same family as cucumber, squash and melon. It’s one of the most popular vegetables in the squash family, being extremely versatile, tender and easy to cook. Just don’t boil them! They have a deep green skin with firm pale flesh and are also known as zucchini.
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Red Onion – 1kg
Red onions are crunchy, pungent, sweet and slightly spicy when raw and when cooked their flavor lessens and grows mildly sweeter. The intensity of the pungent flavor varies depending on age and variety
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Chillies – 100g
Spice type chillies. These are generally small-fruited and thin fleshed and hotter than vegetable type chillies. They are used to add heat dishes rather than bulk and are ideal for drying and milling into powdered spice. Many varieties make great edible ornamentals.
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White Courgettes – 1kg
White courgette has a similar flavour to green zucchini but its mottled pale-green skin is thinner and more delicate. It tastes great with basil, eggplant, fish, parsley, tomatoes, garlic, lemons, lamb and onions.
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Romanesco Cauliflower – 1pc
Romanesco, also known as broccoflower or Roman cauliflower, is a chartreuse, unique-looking vegetable prized for its appearance and mild flavor. It is sometimes assumed to be a hybrid between broccoli and cauliflower but is botanically different (although related).
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