The Fresh Five
This week we talk to Joel Guy.
 1. Your role at the Melbourne Market: I’m a category manager in Sales for Flavorite Marketing. We’re not only wholesalers, we’re farmers too, Flavorite has the biggest glasshouse in the southern hemisphere located in Warrigal. I’ve worked in the Market for 22 years, which is close to my whole working life.
2. If you could only take three fruits or vegetables with you to a desert island, which would you take: Easy, my lines, which would be blueberries, pineapples and passionfruit.
3. When was the last time you bought flowers for someone: For my lovely partner, about a month ago. I got them here at the Market from Mr Fresh.
4. Tell us something that is on your ‘bucket list’: Win Tattslotto, we’ve just gone a bought a Powerball ticket for tonight so fingers crossed! A more realistic one would be to travel through Europe.
5. What do you most enjoy about working at the Melbourne Market: I guess spending time with all these lovable chaps (pointing to Flavorite colleagues watching on and having a giggle). I’m a people person so I enjoy the large amount of diversity of people we have around us here at the Market. |
Avocado squeeze tests might soon be a thing of the past with the launch of a new, sensor-driven technology designed to detect if the fruit is perfectly ripe. The Avocado Firmness Decision Aid Tool, nicknamed ‘Readycado’, was recently revealed at Queensland’s annual agricultural show, Ekka. When applied to an avocado, a pressure sensor attached to your thumb triggers green LED lights on the tool’s display, showing if the avocado is the perfect level of ripeness for a salad, through to a more ripe and softer avo for a guacamole dish. 
