Produce

broccoli-thumbProduce Express carries a variety of organic and conventionally grown produce from small family farmers and growers to supply our customers with the freshest local, seasonal produce throughout the year. We send our experienced buyer to the San Francisco market six nights a week to personally select our specialty produce items. We take great pride in being able to procure almost any specialty item overnight.

Almond - Green

Green almonds are unripe almonds, picked before the shell has a chance to harden.

Artichoke

Artichokes are the edible, immature flower of a cultivated thistle plant.  The artichoke’s quality varies dramatically during the growing season.

Asparagus

Asparagus is a perennial vegetable native to the Eastern Mediterranean. The name asparagus comes from the Greek language meaning 'sprout' or 'shoot'.

Avocado - Hass

The Hass avocado is known for its quintessentially tumbled leathery fairly thick skin that turns near black when fully mature. The Hass avocado is an ideal avocado; it ripens evenly, it peels easily, its pit is easy to remove and it has a rich, nutty flavor with a creamy texture.

Beet Greens - Bulls Blood

Bulls blood is an heirloom beet from 1840 primarily grown for its tender, sweet, deep red-burgundy tops/greens.

Bell Pepper

Sweet bell peppers have a wonderful combination of tangy taste and crunchy texture, with their beautifully shaped glossy exterior that comes in a wide array of vivid colors ranging from green, red, yellow, orange, purple, brown to black.

Black Garlic

Black garlic is sweet meets savory, a perfect mix of molasses-like richness and tangy garlic undertones.

Broccoli

Broccoli is the dense, unopened budding sprouts of a member of the cabbage family. Broccoli belongs to the same family as kohlrabi, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, kale, collard greens, and all the cabbages.

Broccoli Romanesco

Resembling a cross between broccoli and cauliflower, Romanesco is a compact head of beautiful lime green florets attached to a cluster of stalks.

Broccolini

A green vegetable similar to broccoli but with smaller florets and longer, thin stalks.

Brussels Sprouts

Their prime season is late fall and early winter, especially after the first frost.  They need the cold weather to develop their delicately sweet, nutty flavor.

Cauliflower

Large, tight cauliflower heads are surrounded by dark green leaves.

Cauliflower and broccoli are the same species and have very similar structures.

Coconut

Coconuts are large, round fruits with a hard brown shell and a creamy, white firm flesh. The outer shell is covered with coarse brown fibers.

Corn

What food is more synonymous with summer than freshly picked corn on the cob? Corn grows in "ears," each of which is covered in almost uniform rows of tightly packed kernels (a single ear of corn can contain up to 400 kernels).

Cranberry

Cranberries are small, bright red berries harvested from low growing scrubby, woody plants that grow in moors and bogs that contain acidic soil.

Eggs, Organic Grade A Large Brown

Clover Organic Farms Eggs come from hens that are artificial-stimulant-free and veggie-fed. They also have the freedom of movement and access to fresh air and sunshine.

Fava Beans

Bright green, tender and sweet beans form inside five to seven inch long paler green pods, half dozen or so beans to a pod.

Fiddlehead Ferns

Fiddleheads are unique in both appearance and flavor. The young shoots of the fern are tightly wound into a circular button-like shape.

Finger Limes

Finger limes are a micro-citrus originally discovered growing wild in Australia. The interior pulp can best be described as citrus pearls, or citrus caviar.

Garlic - Spring

Spring garlic, or green garlic, is the immature garlic plant that has yet to develop a full-size head. Harvested for its sweet, aromatic, delicate flavor, the entire plant is edible and can be used in any preparation calling for garlic.

Ginger Root

Ginger is the underground rhizome of the ginger plant with a firm, striated texture and an appearance unlike almost any other edible root.

Gooseberry

Gooseberries, also known as Ground Cherries, are enclosed in papery husks, much like tomatillos, to protect the fruits from insects and cushion them when harvested.

Huckleberry

Huckleberries are small, round plump berries with skin color ranging from red to purple to black; in taste, they range from tart to sweet.

Jicama

Jicama is a tropical tuber, large and roundish is shape, slightly resembling a potato with light brown skin and edible white flesh.

Kiwi

The kiwi is a small oblong fruit with thin brownish fuzzy skin covering emerald green flesh that is dotted with tiny edible black seeds.

Kohlrabi

Kohlrabi is a member of the brassica family, resembling a turnip with distinct protruding stalks topped with collard like leaves.

Kumquat

The smallest member of the citrus family, kumquats, like their larger relatives, originated in China

Leeks

This sweet, delicately flavored vegetable, related to onion and garlic family, has an edible 6-10 inch blanched, white stalk.  The tough, strappy, green leaves should be trimmed away, leaving the pale green and beautiful white stalk. 

Lemon

Lemons are heavily utilized as a flavoring agent in various forms. The fruit is oblong shaped, with pointed ends. Its aromatic skin is semi-thick, porous and laden with essential oils.

Lemon, Meyer

The Meyer is most likely a cross between a lemon and a mandarin.  Meyer lemons are yellow and rounder than a true lemon.

Limes

Like lemons, Limes are too acidic to eat out of hand, but their juice can used to brighten the flavor of other ingredients.

Mango

The mango, considered a tropical fruit, is a flattened to oblong fruit with colorful skin
and sweet, orange-red flesh.

Papaya

The Hawaiian papaya is pear shaped, weighs about a pound and has yellow skin when ripe.

Pea - English

The arrival of the freshly picked green peas is a telltale sign of spring. The tender, sweet, plump peas must be shucked from their inedible pods and can be eaten raw or cooked.

Pea - Sno

Favored for its crisp, sweet pod than its tiny peas, the flat shape of the Sno Pea makes it easy to distinguish from other edible pea pods, like the Sugar Snap Pea.

Pea, Snap

Bright green and sweet, string-less sugar snap peas have a crisp, edible pod. Resembling miniature versions of common green pea pods, sugar snap peas are not only tender and entirely edible, but quite sweet and juicy as well.

Pineapple

Pineapples are a large plump fruit with a distinct protective outer skin and a crown of spiny leaves.

Pomegranate

A softball sized fruit with an interior like no other. The clusters of the edible juicy seeds are randomly encased in a creamy white membrane.

Pummelo aka Pommelo and Pomelo

The pummelo is a large oversized sweet, mild grapefruit, weighing 2-3 pounds each with thick skin, white flesh and tart flavor. It has very little, or none, of the common grapefruit's bitterness, but the pith around the segments is bitter.

Quince

Quince resembles a large, lumpy yellow pear. This highly aromatic fruit gives off a musky-wild tropical-like perfume.

Ramps

This wild onion grows from Canada to the Carolinas and resembles a scallion with broad leaves.

Rhubarb

A centuries old vegetable that is often used as a fruit, Rhubarb appears in late winter from greenhouses, then field grown throughout the spring and early summer.

Sour Cream

Clover Stornetta products start from milk sourced from a large group of family run dairy farms located in Marin, Sonoma and Mendocino counties.