Jam is not necessarily just for spreading on your toast. This mango jam in particular has at least a dozen applications! Mira Samani from the Mango Jam Company gives us some of her favourite ideas and tells us about the jam’s cheeky twist.

We got some apples from Brighton Open Market, just labelled ‘English organic apples’ and what a surprise waited underneath the ruby skin – the flesh was pink! It was dad’s mission on his return to the market last week, to find out exactly what these English organic apples were.

Scottish fruit growers Angus Soft Fruits have introduced a revolutionary recyclable punnet to house their great-tasting Good Natured Fruit (GNF) range of strawberries and raspberries that are grown without the use of pesticides and so are residue free.

Dried citrus peels have many uses, so next time you’re going to eat an orange or use lemon juice, peel it first and dry the peel.

There is nothing quite like picking a strawberry from it’s plant and popping it straight into your mouth. Such a pure strawberry flavour, sweet and tart, perfumed and juicy, still warm from the sun.

Back from a recent trip to Portugal, my parents brought me a great surprise – Nesperas! You may, or may not know what they are, so here’s the low down on this delicious fruit…

The Chocolate Alchemist has introduced a special limited edition single plantation dark chocolate from Madirofolo in Madagascar. This is a unique chocolate and I was lucky enough to pick up a bar at the Real Food Festival.

It’s been one of those manic weeks but I finally found the time to indulge myself in a little cooking. All week I’ve been thinking long and hard about what I was going to make for my Spring Fruit Sensation. I did some research into the seasonal fruits available now and I came up with rhubarb and pears but what to do with them was a tricky matter…I really needed inspiration!

We are lucky enough to have two mature black elders at the bottom of our garden. The beautifully fragrant flowers came and went before I got around to doing anything with them but I was determined not to let the berries go to waste. So, i made use of the remaining berries on our shrubs by making an elderberry jelly.

Sales of ’superfoods’ are soaring with the public desperate to include them in diets after headlines about their potential health benefits. A success story as far as the fresh produce industry is concerned, superfoods have added a new dimension to sales. One category that has really benefited has been berries, blueberries in particular, and the phenomenon has also created a new identity for niche lines like pomegranates.

We bought some delicious English strawberries this week, they were juicy and sweet. But they started to go soft much faster than we could eat them all and it seemed such a shame to throw them in the compost, so I wracked my brains for something to do with them. I came up with a strawberry sauce.