Ive noticed how much of the fruit and veg in supermarkets is just bland tasting and awful…I do try to buy from a small greengrocers in town which sell a wide variety of stuff…eggs I buy fresh from my neighbour free range laid the same day.
I used to enjoy the taste of tomatoes too but never buy these from the supermarket now theyre just dead tasting of nothing.
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A lot is sold for you to ripen at home - whatever that means ! but tomatoes? yuk, they have no taste at all and are full of pale orange water, eugh!
A new potato is nothing like I remember them tasting, newly dug is not a new potato!
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It seems that the powers that be are tinkering with a lot of our foodstuffs,I bet you any money you like that weve all eaten some GM crap by now unwittingly…I think if its been tampered with then I want to know about it and want to know exactly from the label whats been done with my food!
Im sure the nutrients are being slowly bled from our food .Nothing unless its organically grown or home grown seems to have any goodness in it anymore
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I thought it was just me and that my taste buds had stopped working.
Dont think any of the fruit and veg you buy now a days has any taste.
I do try to buy from farm shops so much nicer.
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I think the quality of tomatoes sold in supermarkets has improved–from awful to poor.
The early picking, transport and rapid ripening results in the inferior, mealy tomatoes that we have in our grocery stores today.
In Spain for example they like to pick them earlier so that they can start another crop to maximise profits and other crops too.
Ethylene is a naturally-occurring ripening gas in many fruits and I understand that some Spanish growers pump this into their poly-tunnels as soon as they can.
With Lettuce, if you add more water and add fertilisers weekly you can force them to grow quicker but the natural flavours are produced by the plant over time so that can be lost.
One they’re picked though they obviously cannot take on any water so during transport they can dry out too quickly so really the best thing to do with shop-bought Lettuce is to soak it in water for a couple of hours, allow it to dry in a collander in the 'fridge then use it.
I’m not a great fruit eater so soft fruits are beyond my experience but I’ve noticed Blackberries along the canal banks and my wife says they are far tastier than the shop ones! stevmk2
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Ahhh well there you go matey - blackberry pie, stewed blackberries, Blackberry Gin - what could be better??? - and what’s more its FREE!!!
My home grown tomatoes are tasting delicious! And I’m not really a fan of them.
The one thing I do miss about having to downsize is space to grow tomatoes-Eva Purple Ball,Black from Tula,Brandywine to name just 3. I sold so many varieties but if anyone wanted Moneymaker I told them to go to a garden centre
Even if you only have a window box, I would recommend growing some herbs. It’s nice to be able to pick them fresh.
I appreciate that not everyone wants a large garden, but I’m disgusted at the pathetic size of gardens given to modern houses. People should be able to grow some veges if they want to. It seems to be the only way to get anything with taste these days.
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Hi
I live in a rural area, so plenty of seasonal fruit and veg available, mostly from Honesty Boxes at the roadside.
I also grow my own, taste so much better and even with very little space it is amazing how much you can grow.
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This made me chuckle OG lol
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Was just about to post a thread about this but our bot told me we already have this one 
Anyway, was going to ask - when did you guys notice the decline in quality/adulteration of food?
It seems to be eroding more quickly than ever, and it’s not just taste - you can ‘see’ the difference. Ginger - looks extremely pale/lifeless, same with garlic - and they don’t have the same intensity of smell (not to mention flavour!) as well. Even coriander - the stems are thicker, less leaves and even the leaves seem ‘crispy’ instead of soft and a lighter green instead of a deeper one.
Again, it’s all down to greed - if you go to independent grocers (particularly those who are aimed at ethnic minorities) they appear to have retained quality, but it’s these large supermarkets who seem to be watering down our produce. Even Waitrose is just as bad now.
I feel sorry for the younger generation (your grandchildren, if you have them) I hate to imagine how devoid of nutrition their diets are, not through their own doing (many try to eat as healthy as they can) but because of the greedy supermarket bosses, pushing sub-standard food on them.
Reminds me of this:
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No I havent really noticed any difference.
Home grown tomatoes for example do taste better than supermarket ones - but that has always been the case, not a new thing.
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Looking at it from another angle we have a greater variety of foods available than every before. Okay, so it might involve a bit of 'shopping around ’ but perhaps we’ve become a bit lazy without even realising and expect everything to be hunky dory in the nearest mega sized supermarket? I’m not suggesting that retailers should try and flog us second and third rate produce however, wouldn’t want anyone to make me eat my own words! 
Just noticed you are in Australia - I imagine most of your produce is grown locally there? Here in the UK we import so much because a lot of the stuff we want does not grow here.
Personally I am comparing to the same food items from the same supermarket (Waitrose - they used to be excellent but they are becoming more and more like Tesco, sadly).
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Yep, I agree Azz, it does seem to be getting quite ‘samey’, not only the quality of the food but the actual shopping experience itself.
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Azz, Yes I am from Australia. some things like tomatoes/strawberries/grapes would definitely be grown locally.
Other things would be imported and things like bananas, though not imported from another country, are travelling from Queensland to me in South Australia which is a long distance
Other things like oranges are grown locally i n season - but imported other times of year. We have mandarines from US in shop at the moment and they grow locally here i n winter.
(My own grow extremely locally - on my own tree in my own backyard 
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The quality of the fruit and veg is getting poor at my local Asda. … i blame this on the recent change to NOT having to show any dates on fresh veggie produce.
It’s a licence for them to dump inferior food onto us.
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It doesn’t help when much of our fruit/vegetables are produced in much the same way as cars are made, in factories:
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