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@SueW

Imagine my amazement at the quality and freshness of those vegies.

This is why for some of the prepackaged products…

Plastic Wrapped Vegetables in the supermarket

I avoid repackaged fruit and vegetables as most of the packaging is ‘modified atmosphere packaging’ to prolong the shelf life of the product within the packaging. Organic vegetables are included in this sort of packaging as they are higher value product to both the grower and the seller, they also travel further to retailers (particularly those products which are not grown locally due to climatic conditions or seasonality) and the spoiling of organic product costs more. It allows far greater s…