Picking Onions When Produce Shopping

Video Transcript

"Hi everybody my name is J and I'm talking to you on behalf of Expert Village. We are picking produce today. Produce is vegetable or fruit. Today we have an onion. An onion needs to be nice and firm all the way around. So obviously what you're going to do is pick it up and feel it and if it’s not firm or you feel bruising or you feel any type of dents don’t get it. You also want to look at it. Now, there's really nothing to look at because onions have a papery like skin all the way around, as you can tell. You want to make sure this skin is nice and tight all the way around your onion, you don't want there to be any loose spots on your skin of your onion. Also, what you can do is basically smell it. It should not have a smell, it should be nice and a mild of a smell. If you smell any type of moldy type of smell or a musty type of smell you definitely don’t want to get your onion that’s musty or moldy smelling, stay away from that type of stuff. This one has a nice mild smell and as you can see the onion is nice and beautiful all the way around, nice and hard all the way around, and you've got yourself a beautiful onion. Now this is a sweet onion and of course there are a lot of different types of onions but all of them basically have the same structure. They got paper like skin all the way around, same thing with the shallot, so no matter what you're working with you want to use these same basic rules."