Tips for buying fruits vegetables and milk products

Tips for buying fruits and vegetables:

• 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.

Tips for buying fruits vegetables and milk products

Tips for buying milk and milk products:

• 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.