Comments on: Honeydew Melons from Toscana Farms

By: dhayL

dhayL — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:30:35 +0000

i love having fruits for breakfast, specially mango, looking in your photos makes my mouth water! :)

By: Didi

Didi — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:08:10 +0000

MM – you know what, our fruit suki has this weird type of melon that taste so delicious! It’s HoneyDew that’s a size of a Papaya. It’s sooooo sweet – no exagerration. The price though is about Php250.00 – Php300.00 a pop. Expensive noh?

I’d love to share one to you when its available. It’s actually a trial and error – and so when we do find it really good – we hoard!!

By: Vennis Jean

Vennis Jean — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:32:23 +0000

Being in Mindanao is surely an advantage when it comes to fruits…as of today i went to the palengke to buy veggies nd fruits from the taboan and plump sweet lanzones are as low as 20.00/kilo,American papaya 15.00/kilo,Dole Papaya(the small,plump,orange-fleshed,sweet papayas)10.00/kilo),watermelon 15.00/kilo,mangosteen 20.00/kilo,Sweet Mangga Cebu 35.00/kilo and big lkatn bananas go for 15.00/kilo….being on a fruit diet isn’t hard here. ^_^

By: bedazzle

bedazzle — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:30:44 +0000

I wonder if the much-vaunted bagsakan ng bayan of the dept. of agriculture (DA) will carry these delicious tropical fruits. kasi i read somewhere that DA will be putting up these markets in barangays. if DA can source their produce from the municipalities that have a surplus then us city dwellers can enjoy them at much lower prices. sana mag-concentrate naman sila sa vegetables and fruits. calling DA Secretary Arthur Yap!

By: nang

nang — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:07:13 +0000

i’m a big tropical fruits fan and my favorites are papaya, tropical gold pineapple , rambutan, pomelo and bananas. i love mangosteen too but they’re just too expensive in manila. i’ve taken to buying branded fruits because there are less chances of getting bad ones and even if they’re a little more expensive than those bought at the wet markets, i figured i get more value for money by being sure of their quality. dizon, dole and nenita rarely fails in this regard. i’ve never tried toscana though and will now be in the lookout for it.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:20:14 +0000

cwid, yes, I agree with your sentiments in general around local fruit. However, on a positive note, we are beginning to brand, as with Nenita pomelos, Dole pineapples and other fruits, Toscana melons and tomatoes, Dizon Farms fruits, etc. You just have to hunt them down, they aren’t always in all groceries. marie, maybe the honeydews were picked way too early so they could be shipped? The closer the melon is to the vine and picked ripe, the better…

By: cwid

cwid — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:56:28 +0000

I was in Manila recently and I was disappointed that most of the fruits I saw at the groceries were apples, grapes, oranges, kiwis—mostly foreign. And I was craving for mangoes and lanzones! I was surprised and disappointed that the better lanzones are the ones that come from Thailand and cost Php 400 a kilo versus the local ones which were Php 100. Why can’t our local farmers keep up with foreign competition especially the ones that come from Thailand and Vietnam? Didn’t we train them at our local schools?

Buying local fruits is like opening “a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get”. Wouldn’t it be better if the ones that produce the good kind— like the Toscana melons and the ones from Candaba, can be branded—like Dole and Del Monte or even the Mexican mangoes—so that you look for these ones when you shop and get assurance that you are buying the same quality as the ones before.

By: noemi

noemi — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:22:04 +0000

oh, I want the pomelo.

By: marie

marie — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:07:14 +0000

Why is it that the honeydews we get here in LA are so bland.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:30:31 +0000

suzette, you know, I don't know off the top of my head... hmmm, let me look around. I know I did a post on this before... suzette, this link suggests that melons are tropical and originally from the African continent... if that helps...