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At Growers Direct we have been selling UK and imported fruit for over 50 years.
It is what we do, what we know and more importantly what we love !
Selling over a million cartons per year Growers Direct specialises in sales to
Convenience Retail, Food Service, Processing Companies and Wholesale.
Our procurement strategy is simple, we source the finest quality fruit from the world’s best growers !
Buying produce from ourselves ensures the product is food safe, ethically sourced with fully transparent traceability.
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TRADITIONAL FRUIT
NEW FRUIT
PEARS
Braeburn
This red striped apple with yellow/green background is very popular in the UK, it’s easy to grow and also handles well. Very crisp, sweet and juicy, with a slight tartness.
Available year round:
Northern Hemisphere: September - June
Best to eat: November - March
Southern Hemisphere: May - October
Best to eat: June - August
Empire
Distinctive deep red apple with light green background. It’s particularly popular with kids due to its “eat me” like appearance. It has a very sweet taste similar at times to pineapple.
Availability:
Northern Hemisphere: October - June
Best to eat: December - April
Granny Smith
Perhaps Australia’s most famous export (even before Fosters) this apple has a very hardy, thick, crisp skin, with a mild tart taste and is excellent for cooking.
Available year round:
Northern Hemisphere: October - June
Best to eat: November - February
Southern Hemisphere: May - October
Best to eat: June - August
Royal Gala
A widely grown red striped apple with pale green background. Known for its aromatic sweet taste, this is an easy eating apple.
Available year round:
Northern Hemisphere: Aug - April
Best to eat: October - February
Southern Hemisphere: March - September
Best to eat: May - July
Cox
This apple has possibly the best taste of any dessert apple, however it is notoriously difficult to grow and also has poor storage qualities. Its unique taste when caught at the right times has hints of pear, orange, melon - just an array of flavour.
Availability:
Northern Hemisphere: September - April
Best to eat: November - December
Southern Hemisphere: April - June
Best to eat: April - May
Bramley
So easily recognisable due to its bold large, non-uniformed shape with a bright green appearance. The perfect cooking apple, which, when cooked, becomes light and fluffy. Is ideal for pies, tarts chutneys and many more uses.
Available year round:
Northern Hemisphere: All year
Best to eat: All year
Pink Lady
The first apple to ever be trademarked, an extremely appealing bi-coloured apple with pink crisp thin skin. Has a sweet almost tart taste and is often described as having a fizz!
Available year round:
Northern Hemisphere: November - June
Best to eat: December - March
Southern Hemisphere: June - October
Best to eat: July - September
Golden Delicious
An old classic and still a prominent apple in the UK due to its storing qualities. When caught at optimum times it has a refreshing, crisp almost caramel sweetness that’s hard to beat.
Available year round:
Northern Hemisphere: August - July
Best to eat: Oct - Feb
Southern Hemisphere: April - July
Best to eat: May - Jun
Red Delicious
This striking Red apple has a deep Ruby coloured skin and a distinctive elongated shape and is a widely grown apple. It has a very complex and varied array of flavour, its sweet and juicy
with a thick, sharp tasting skin. Red delicious is
more of an historic variety but its popularity
seems to be returning.
Available year round:
Northern Hemisphere: September - March
Best to eat: November - February
Southern Hemisphere: February - December
Best to eat: March - July
Tentation
This apple is a modern take on the Golden Delicious. It perhaps has the best chance to succeed in UK markets due to its golden/green background with amazing orange blush. A very
refreshing fruit, it combines a thin, crisp bite
with a delicate, sweet, almost syrup like taste.
Availability:
Northern Hemisphere: October - January
Southern Hemisphere: May - August
Evelina
A block red high coloured apple. As the colour suggests, the fruit has a “deep” flavour with a wonderful sweetness combined with a crisp, clean bite. Its striking colour should help with its
quest for popularity in the UK apple market.
Availability:
Northern Hemisphere: November - February
Opal
Perhaps truly the new kid on the block, with very little tonnage available. There is a lot expected of this apple, with its yellow appearance and slight blush, combined with its firm
texture and intense strawberry like sweetness,
it’s a break from the more common bi-coloured
varieties.
Availability:
Northern Hemisphere: September - December
Sonya
A distinctive heart shaped apple with a blush red foreground and a cream background. This apple already has a strong following in the UK but has a little way to go to become mainstream. Its characteristics include a great texture and an
intense sweet flavour with no tartness or acidity.
Availability:
Southern Hemisphere: May - August
Conference
The most popular of pear varieties. With an easily recognisable elongated shape and deep green colour. It has a wonderful, light, sweet and juicy taste.
Available year round:
Northern Hemisphere
Best to eat: December - May
Comice
The perfect pear for Christmas day. It has a large, round, almost dumpy shape. The skin can be green or yellow/brown often with a red blush. It has a creamy white texture and is far less
gritty than some pear varieties. A superb
caramel-sweet, juicy bite.
Availability:
Northern Hemisphere: September - April
Best to eat: November - January
Southern Hemisphere: April - August
Best to eat: May - June
Packham
Perhaps not the most aesthetically perfect pear, with a green bumpy skin that turns yellow upon ripening. The taste however far outweighs the slightly odd look, as it has a succulent
and rich flavour. The fruit is best when ripened, which
may take between 3 and 7 days at room temperature.
Availability:
Southern Hemisphere: May - June
Rocha
A native Portuguese pear. It is usually a yellow colour with a bright white flesh. It’s a firm crunchy refreshingly juicy and sweet bite.
Availability:
Northern Hemisphere: September - May
Best to eat: December - March
Taylor’s Gold
Gaining popularity in the UK marketplace, this striking looking pear with a cinnamon/gold smooth russeted skin has a delicately perfumed, creamy, juicy and tender bite with a rich,
sweet flavour.
Availability:
Southern Hemisphere: May - August
Best to eat: June - July
Williams
The most commonly grown variety of pear. It is common in UK supermarkets in cans as well as fresh. A green elongated pear with a smooth green skin which turns yellow when ripe and ready.
It’s seen by some as the “definitive” pear taste and
it’s wonderfully sweet, juicy and aromatic.
Availability:
Northern Hemisphere: August - February
Best to eat: September - December
Southern Hemisphere: February - June
Best to eat: April - May
Forelle
One of the most striking looking pear varieties. It has a beautiful bell shape and freckled green skin with a deep red blush. Yet another pear thats green colour turns yellow when ripe. Sometimes
the taste can range from quite bland to extremely
sweet, certainly an acquired, almost perfumed taste.
Availability:
Southern Hemisphere: May - October
Best to eat: June - August
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