Tips for buying fruits and vegetables:
Tips for buying milk and milk products:
- Overripe, blemished/darkened, bruised or insect infested vegetables and fruits
- Green leafy vegetables with wilted or yellow leaves, mushy texture, unpleasant odour, slimy, fuzzy or mouldy growth
- Shrivelled, soft/pulpy, green and sprouted roots and tubers
- Green or sprouted potatoes as they could be toxic
- Onions that are squishy on the inside or have black powder on the scales or are sprouted
- Pulpy, shrivelled and overripe/rotting fruits
- Wet, mouldy or shrivelled, loose grapes that have fallen off the bunch. This means they are very ripe.
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- Unpasteurised milk
- Milk that is discoloured, stringy, sour in taste or curdled, with unnatural odour
- Loose milk and curd
- Cheese and cottage cheese or paneer that is slimy to touch, has creamy yellowish discolouration, or bad odour
- Milk and milk products if the packaging is not sealed properly, or is puffed
- If expiry date or 'best before' date on the packet has lapsed.