Fruit & Vegetables

Coles and Woolworths stock their produce largely from the same suppliers. Aldi consistently wins Canstar Blue's fresh product award and is generally regarded online as being the best for customer satisfaction with regards to produce quality.

Yes and no. Australia is generally regarded as having very high quality produce in comparison to other Western countries. In comparison to those countries with a similar quality Australias prices are very average. Many other countries have lower prices but rarely with such variety at a high quality. Australias proximity to south east asia is key. Australian produce prices are very seasonal.

Watermelon, consistently. Oranges are the next most budget-friendly, followed by bananas. All three move with the season and watermelon swings the hardest, which is why we don't print a per-kilo figure here — the price we could write down today would be wrong for most of the time this page is read. The fruit and veg comparison above is priced from the current scrape.

Carrots, followed by potatoes and onions. Root vegetables are the most economical fresh produce available to Australian shoppers generally: they store well, travel well, and are grown at scale year round, so they are far less seasonal than most of the produce aisle. Prices still move between retailers and across the year, so the comparison above is the number worth trusting rather than a figure quoted in an answer.

Our price comparisons are based on all products shared by two companies in our system for a category. This 'product overlap' is why you'll sometimes see more items compared between companies like Coles and Woolworths than stores that have a more unique range, such as Aldi. Sometimes the range is so unique for a category that there is not enough product overlap to do a fair comparison. In such a case, we will omit the results entirely.