Tag: Fruits and vegetables
It’s picking time, what are we allowed to do?
Blueberries, mushrooms, lily of the valley, wild plants… With spring, summer ahead and autumn promising, many people enjoy forest harvests. A ritual for some, an attractive opportunity for others but…
French farmers on fire over Moroccan tomatoes
They broke into several supermarkets on Friday. In Rennes, Brest, Avignon and Agen, farmers carried out a coordinated tomato labeling operation. Their objective ? Denounce the “unfair competition” from Moroccan…
Will there be apples next school year?
Two more difficult nights and mornings of agricultural frost. This is the observation made by agroclimatologist Serge Zaka who, on cartography regions most impacted by the risk of loss. The…
“Completely irrational”… These farmers are angry with organic tomatoes in heated greenhouses
They have arrived on the shelves of our supermarkets in recent weeks. Who ? French tomatoes! Like every year, they display their redness in spring with the promise of a…
How a bunch of green onions became the central topic of South Korea’s elections
Koreans call it “jjokpa”. This green onion is widely used in the traditional cuisine of this Asian country of 51 million inhabitants. It is used to make very popular broths…
Contaminated bagged salads, alert “60 million consumers”
Several NGOs warned last February that more and more fruits and vegetables consumed in the European Union were contaminated by pesticides. According to a study published Thursday by 60 million…
From farmer to consumer, is there really a price difference of five euros when selling a cauliflower?
More than five euros difference between the price paid to the producer and the price paid by the consumer. Such a difference is surprising, especially for cauliflower. This is the…
French or foreign products, which are the most expensive?
Burdened by taxes and loans, protesting against the downward pressure of mass distribution, suffocating themselves from margins in supermarkets and screaming against foreign competition, farmers have started a vast protest…
Ugly fruits and vegetables, cosmetic brands offer them “a second life”
Not all fruits and vegetables present in the composition of your cosmetics are there only to look pretty or to smell good. Some brands such as Coslys, Cultiv, Poméol or…
Do apple labels actually indicate the presence of pesticides? Not really
If, like Jacques Chirac, you are an apple eater, you are undoubtedly used to the little labels stuck on fruit. But have you ever wondered what the numbers on the…