Choose Well, Eat Well / fruit

Every answer you want about a Japanese peach or Shine Muscat is already printed on the carton it arrived in — variety, grade, size class, net weight, and who inspected it. An importer's guide to reading a JA fruit label in Hong Kong: what 特秀 really certifies, why a lower 玉数 means bigger peaches, what 3L actually measures, whether the white bloom on grapes is pesticide, and what is genuinely at its peak in late August.

You cut it open and the flesh is dark. In most cases that is normal avocado behaviour, not a bad fruit. An honest Hong Kong guide to the six things dark avocado flesh can be, a five-second "is it still good?" chart, how Hass, Shepard, Reed and Fuerte each brown, and how to judge ripeness properly.