Pick Right: Produce Guide

Pick Right

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About this app

Pick it right. Then eat it right.

Stand in the produce aisle and you're guessing. Is this melon ripe? Why did last week's cilantro wilt in two days? Is this avocado ready today or Thursday? Pick Right answers all three — with cues that work, drawn from published postharvest food science, not wellness blogs.

PICK IT RIGHT — free
• A pick-or-pass verdict on every fruit, vegetable, herb, root and seed in the app
• How to pick — the exact color, firmness and smell that signal a good one
• Red flags — what to walk away from
• Varieties — which kind you're actually holding
• What's good this month, on the home screen

EAT IT RIGHT — free
• Storage — how to keep it once it's home, and how long it really lasts
• Stages — for fruit that ripens on your counter, what each day looks like and when to eat it

FIRST TASTE — free, no account, no card
• Your first 5 scans
• Your first 5 questions
• One profile deck, yours for 24 hours

PICK RIGHT PRO — monthly or yearly
• Scan any produce with your camera — not what it is, but whether this one's good
• Ask anything about fresh produce, answered from cited sources
• Season — the full calendar and peak month for your growing zone
• Picks made for you — choose a profile, from runners to new parents to night-shift workers, and see what's worth buying for you this month
• Nutrients — what's actually in it, and what helps you absorb it
• Taste and pairings — what it goes with
• Ayurveda context — how a food was traditionally valued, described and never prescribed
• New produce all year — grains, pulses and dry fruits are on the way

BUILT LIKE A TOOL
No account. No email. No ads. No profile to build. Open it and go.

CITED, NOT CROWD-SOURCED
Every fact traces to a real source — UC Davis, USDA and published postharvest research.

Ayurveda context is descriptive: how a food was traditionally valued. It is never a treatment or a health claim. For anything medical, see a doctor.

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What’s new

• Listen — tap Listen and it reads the section out loud, so your hands stay free at the market
• Alerts — write to us on Talk to us and your phone buzzes as soon as we reply
• News — see what we've added lately, and the home screen tells you when there's something new
• A gift — the whole app is open for two days. The two days start when you press Open