Times OnlineValerie Elliott, Consumer Editor
Ugly fruit and vegetables which have grown just as nature intended will be back on supermarket shelves from tomorrow — and could be up to 40 per cent cheaper than their perfectly formed cousins.
Ugly fruit and vegetables which have grown just as nature intended will be back on supermarket shelves from tomorrow — and could be up to 40 per cent cheaper than their perfectly formed cousins.
In a triumph for curvy cucumbers, knobbly carrots or wizened cherries, the European Commission has scrapped 20-year-old rules which discriminated against imperfect fresh produce.
In all, 36 types of fruit and vegetables can now be sold whatever their shape, size, lack of sheen or gnarled skin. Even garlic heads with cloves missing will make it to shop shelves and a string of onions no longer has to have 16 bulbs.
But the rules will not end the jokes about bendy bananas — the standards for bananas are governed by a different set of European Union rules. One EU official said that bananas were supposed to be bendy, unlike cucumbers.
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