How To Pick The Best Fruits At The Grocery Store

June 3, 2026 by admin

Weight matters as well. Pick up a few melons and see which one feels heavier than you expected. Generally, the heavier ones have more juicy flesh, maybe they are just tightly packed, who knows. Whereas lightweight cantaloupes are usually dry, and dry cantaloupe is the saddest type of cantaloupe.

Okay, so now you flip and press the bottom, where the blossom end was. You do not need too much pressure. If it gives a little this is probably what you want to see. If it’s too soft? Like your thumb leaves an indent? This is probably soft and mushy on the inside.

And finally, yes you should smell it. Like a pineapple, the nose knows. A cantaloupe that smells faintly sweet is probably at peak ripeness, but if it smells too strong or stanky-bad in that overly sweet sense, it may be going bad. If it smells like melon liqueur? Avoid it.

So, I guess that is sort of the short version of what to examine with these fruits. Like I said, it is not rocket science, but once you have learned to recognize a couple of little things, like how it smells, how it feels, what kind of weird scarring it has, you will get better at getting some good ones. This obviously won’t guarantee your kid is going to love fruit, but at least when they agree to take a bite, you won’t be handing them a complete dud.