Brazil is great for local fruit and veg.
There's lots of variety and its all fresh and incredibly flavoursome. Most of it comes from small farms and plots of land in the nearby mountains and up the coast. Organic produce, the traditional way. This is what I found at a Tuesday market in Niteroi:
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| Water bananas, Earth bananas |
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| Golden bananas, papaya |
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| Okra, green beans, mange-tout peas. |
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| Scarlett Eggplant, brought from West Africa. |
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| Tropical parsnips. |
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| Cassava from a farm-holding up the coast. |
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| Corn on the cob from the same farm. |
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| Traditional market, new apartment blocks. |
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| Yams |
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| Sweet potatoes |
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| Pumpkin |
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| Coriander from Teresopolis |
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| Oranges, Brazil's traditional big export crop, along with coffee |
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| Sour-sop from Bahia in northeast Brazil. Custardy texture and sweet flavour. |
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| Palmer and Espada Mangos |
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| Passion-fruit |
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| Apples, plums and nectarines from southern Brazil, Argentina and Chile |
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| Peeled garlic between apples and watermelon! |
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| Guava |
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| Papaya |
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| Cashew fruit |
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| Cassava and eggs |
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| Quail eggs |
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| The sugar-cane juice van. Freshly squeezed juice made by using a machine to crush the cane. |
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| Sugar cane stacked in the back of the van. |
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| The crushed cane. |
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| Juice being collected. |
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| Frothy and sugary. |
