Fruit and Vegetable Market Prices South Africa

Apple Prices South Africa

Granny Smith, Royal Gala, Golden Delicious and Pink Lady are just a few of the thousands of different kinds of apple that are grown around the world! You can make dried apple rings at home – ask an adult to help you take out the core, thinly slice the apple and bake the rings in the oven at a low heat. Click Here for Prices

Apricot Prices South Africa

Apricots can be eaten fresh or dried – both are packed with vitamins! Fresh apricots have a soft and slightly furry skin. They make a good lunchbox snack. Apricots are also high in beta-carotene – this helps us keep our eyes and skin healthy. Click Here for Prices

Asparagus Prices South Africa

Asparagus is a shoot vegetable and we eat the stalk and the tip. It makes any dish look more interesting with its unusual shape. Asparagus is a good source of a vitamin called folate, which is important for healthy blood. Click Here for Prices

Aubergine Prices South Africa

Most aubergines are teardrop-shaped and have a glossy purple skin. On the inside, they are spongy and creamy white. Aubergines grow on bushes and are really fruits – although you wouldn’t want to eat them raw. Australians and Americans call it eggplant because some types look a bit like large eggs Click Here for Prices

Avocado Prices South Africa

It is sometimes called an avocado pear. Avocado is often mistaken for a vegetable because we eat it like a salad vegetable, but it is actually a fruit. Avocados are at their best when they are ripe and very easy to prepare. They can simply be cut in half with the stone removed and eaten with a little salad dressing or chopped into a salad. Avocados are a good source of essential fats (the good ones) – one of the few fruits or vegetables that contain fat. Click Here for Prices

Banana Prices South Africa

Bananas make a nutritious snack! They are a great source of energy and contain lots of vitamins and minerals, especially potassium, which is important to help cells, nerves and muscles in your body to work properly and it helps to lower blood pressure. They have a thick skin to protect them, which is green before bananas are ripe, and get more yellow in colour and sweeter in taste as they ripen.  Click Here for Prices

Beetroot Prices South Africa

Beetroot is the root of the beet plant – which explains its name! People have grown it for food since Roman times. Raw beetroot is best for you and great for grating – peel it first. Try it in a salad or sandwich. Small beetroots are usually the sweetest.  Click Here for Prices

Black Eyed Bean Prices South Africa

In America, these beans are often called black-eyed peas or cow peas. They each have a little black dot on the side – this is where they were once attached to their pod, so it’s a bit like a belly button! You can mix them with all sorts of other beans to make a super salad. Click Here for Prices

Broad Bean Prices South Africa

Another name for this bean is the ‘Fava bean’. Broad beans grow in a green, leathery pod. The beans can be eaten fresh, when they are green, or dried, when they have turned brown. The way to identify them is by their flat, broad shape. Beans are a good source of protein and fiber. Click Here for Prices

Broccoli Prices South Africa

Broccoli is closely related to cabbage – and it’s another one of those ‘greens’ we’re always being told to eat up. The part of a broccoli plant we normally eat is the lovely flowerhead – the flowers are usually green but sometimes purple.  Click Here for Prices

Brussels Sprout Prices South Africa

Brussels sprouts are like mini cabbages! They grow out of the ground in knobbly rows on a long tough stalk. They contain loads of vitamin C. Click Here for Prices

Butternut Prices South Africa

Butternut squash is large and pear-shaped with a golden-brown to yellow skin. We don’t eat the skin and seeds, only the flesh. The flesh is really hard when it is raw but it turns soft and sweet when it is cooked. Click Here for Prices

Carrot Prices South Africa

Carrots grow underground and they can be used in all sorts of dishes – from casseroles to cakes. Raw carrots are great to crunch on and they make a healthy juice, too. They contain lots of beta-carotene – this helps us keep our eyes and skin healthy. Click Here for Prices

Cherry Prices South Africa

Cherries are stone fruits – just like their friends the apricots. A cherry tree can carry on producing fruit for 100 years!  Click Here for Prices

Clementine Prices South Africa

This citrus fruit is the smallest of the tangerines. The skin of Clementines can be peeled away easily and the segments don’t contain pips, which makes them a lot less messy to eat than some other varieties.  Click Here for Prices

Courgette Prices South Africa

A courgette is a type of squash and if it isn’t picked early, it grows into a marrow! Courgettes grow on bushes. They look quite like cucumbers and have very soft seeds. Click Here for Prices

Date Prices South Africa

Dates are the fruit of the date palm tree and lots of them are grown in Egypt and California (USA). Dried dates make a super sweet snack. They can be chopped and sprinkled on cereal instead of sugar or honey. Click Here for Prices

Elderberry Prices South Africa

These little, almost black berries grow on bushes all over the countryside in summer! They aren’t good to eat raw but they are berry nice cooked with other fruits in pies or used to make jam! Click Here for Prices

Endive Prices South Africa

Endive is a member of the lettuce family. It is shaped like a bulb and has leaves that overlap each other – try peeling them off one by one to see how many there are. The leaves are a bit bitter on their own but they are delicious in a salad mixed with sweet tomatoes and slices of orange. Click Here for Prices

Fennel Prices South Africa

This vegetable tastes a bit like liquorice! Fennel is a plant that grows in the ground. A bulb shape grows at the base of the plant, and this is the part that you eat. Raw fennel adds a super crunchy taste to salads Click Here for Prices

Figs Prices South Africa

Figs are soft sweet fruits, full of small seeds and often eaten dried. They grow on trees. Fresh figs are delicious and jams and chutneys are often made from them. Click Here for Prices

Garlic Prices South Africa

We eat all different parts of plants and garlic is the bulb. Open it up and you’ll see lots of segments – or cloves – with a papery covering. You only need to use one or two of these to add loads of extra flavour to a food. Click Here for Prices

Grape Prices South Africa

Grapes grow in bunches on vines. On the inside, they are sweet, juicy and jelly-like. Green grapes are also called white grapes and are dried to make sultanas. Purple ones can be called black grapes and are dried to make raisins Click Here for Prices

Green Bean Prices South Africa

Green beans are picked when they are very young – they should be bright in colour and firm. If the pods are bendy, they won’t taste sweet and crunchy! To eat the beans, the ends should be chopped off – this is called topping and tailing Click Here for Prices

Guava Prices South Africa

The guava fruit is widely grown in tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. It can be round to pear-shaped with a thin skin that is green and turns yellow as it ripens. The flesh can be white or even pink, and the seeds can be eaten.  Click Here for Prices

Haricot Bean Prices South Africa

These little beans are white and grow all over the world. Baking them gives you baked beans – the beans are cooked in a tomato sauce. Try them on toast for breakfast Click Here for Prices

Honeydew Melon Prices

Honeydew melons grow on trailing vines along the ground Click Here for Prices

Iceberg Lettuce Prices South Africa

There are many, many kinds of lettuce to choose from. Iceberg has a cool, crisp taste. It adds lots of crunch to a sandwich! Other types of lettuce can be curly, dark green or even red Click Here for Prices

Jerusalem Artichoke Prices South Africa

The knobbly Jerusalem artichoke is related to the pretty sunflower. But it isn’t a type of artichoke and it doesn’t come from Jerusalem! The bit of it we eat is an ugly little tuber (like a small thin potato). The yummy white flesh inside tastes amazing. Click Here for Prices

Kiwi Fruit Prices South Africa

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Leek Prices South Africa

These are in the same family as onion and garlic – they are allium vegetables. Leeks need to be washed well to remove any dirt and grit between the white sections. Click Here for Prices

Lemon Prices South Africa

Lemons were used on ships of famous explorers – the vitamin C stopped sailors from getting a disease called scurvy. You can squeeze out the juice and mix it with water to make a zingy drink. Click Here for Prices

Mango Prices South Africa

Mangoes come in different shapes and sizes. You have to peel off the skin to eat the soft, juicy flesh inside. Mangoes grow best in hot countries like India and Malaysia. Click Here for Prices

Melon Prices South Africa

There are many types of melon; honeydew, cantaloupe and galia, to name a few. Click Here for Prices

Mushroom Prices South Africa

Although mushrooms are not fruits or vegetables (they are actually a type of fungus), they still count as one of your 5 a day Click Here for Prices

Nectarine Prices South Africa

Nectarines are a type of peach with a thin smooth skin and firm flesh. The skin of a peach is more furry but the fruit tastes almost exactly the same.  Click Here for Prices

Nut Prices South Africa

To make it grow it needs protein, which is found in nuts! A nut is actually a fruit, or the seed of a fruit.  Click Here for Prices

Olive Prices South Africa

Olives are really fruits and they grow on trees. If green olives are left on the tree, they turn black Click Here for Prices

Oranges Prices South Africa

Oranges is one of the most popular fruits and used for juices and vitamin C Click Here for Prices

Pea Prices

Petit pois, mangetout, sugar snap and marrow fat are all fancy names for different types of pea. Thousands of tonnes of garden peas are grown in the United Kingdom every year to make frozen peas. Click Here for Prices

Peanut Prices South Africa

Peanuts belong to the same family as peas and beans and grow underground Click Here for Prices

Pear Prices South Africa

Pears are from the same family as apples but they are softer. They can be yellow, green, reddish or brown on the outside but they all have white, juicy flesh inside. Click Here for Prices

Pepper Prices South Africa

Peppers can be red, yellow, green or orange – some are even white or purple Click Here for Prices

Pineapple Prices South Africa

It can take TWO YEARS to grow a pineapple. This rough, spiky fruit is actually made up of lots of smaller fruits that have stuck together. Click Here for Prices

Pumpkin Prices South Africa

Pumpkins are orange on the outside, and also on the inside.  They are family to the cucumber Click Here for Prices

Quince Prices South Africa

This fruit comes from the same family as the pear Click Here for Prices

Radish Prices South Africa

While some radishes are small and red, others are large and white – and shaped like carrots. Some of the red ones have pretty names like Cherry Belle and Scarlet Globe.  Click Here for Prices

Raison Prices South Arica

Raisins start off as black grapes. The grapes are turned into raisins by drying them in the sun. Sultanas are made the same way but with green grapes. Click Here for Prices

Strawberry Prices South Africa

They are the only fruits to have their seeds on the outside Click Here for Prices

Sweet Potato Prices South Africa

These top tubers grow best in tropical places where the weather is warm.

Tomatoes Prices South Africa

Tomatoes are easy to grow in a pot in the garden.

Turnip Prices South Africa

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Plum Prices South Africa

Plums come in all sorts of colours but Victoria plums are dark red and are grown Click Here for Prices

Waterlemon Prices South Africa

Watermelons grow along the ground and they can be enormous Click Here for Prices