Choosing Choose fruit that's just softening; it will soon ripen at room temperature.

Choose fruit instead of sweets as often as you can.

Choose fruit when it's in season and it shouldn't need any added sweetness.

Choose fruit more often than fruit juice.

Those craving sweets, however, might choose fruit in puff pastry.

Mangoes: choose unwrinkled fruit with 'gives' slightly when squeezed gently.

Choose fresh fruit as a festive and sweet substitute for candy.

Choose fruit with glossy skin that are heavy for their size.

Choose the best quality you can find, preferably fruit not packed in a heavily sweetened syrup, and pat it dry.

The trolley was behind me when I turned to choose fruit, but gone when I turned around.