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Our extensive range of fresh fruit and vegetables is brought to you by Fresh Direct and includes everything a busy kitchen needs, from the everyday to the exotic. We’ll deliver your produce with the rest of your Brakes order, saving you time and money.
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In Season | May
Explore the best fresh produce available this month, courtesy of our expert team.
Summer picks
Find out more about the latest new seasonal additions to our produce range that bring colour, flavour and freshness to your menu.
Best of British
We celebrate the bounty of fresh produce that our partner growers and suppliers provide across Britain.
Isle of Wight tomatoes
Discover the vibrancy and flavour of our premium Isle of Wight Tomatoes range, sure to bring maximum taste to your summer menus.
Who are Fresh Direct?
Fresh Direct is the UK’s number one fresh produce supplier, renowned for their excellence in supplying high-quality produce to food businesses for over 50 years. Their exacting standards, vast experience and specialist knowledge truly makes them leaders in the field.
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Fresh Produce FAQs
Through Fresh Direct, Brakes supply a comprehensive range of fresh fruit, vegetables, salads, herbs, and prepared produce, from the everyday to the exotic. Whether you run a pub, hotel, school, restaurant, care home, or multi-site catering operation, our range includes everything your kitchen needs.
Through Fresh Direct, Brakes supply a comprehensive range of fresh fruit, vegetables, salads, herbs, and prepared produce, from the everyday to the exotic. Whether you run a pub, hotel, school, restaurant, care home, or multi-site catering operation, our range includes everything your kitchen needs.
The network of partner growers that Fresh Direct has built over the past 50 years means we source the best of the harvest. Our produce then goes through stringent and extensive quality control and is inspected for optimum condition. Our loose produce is delivered in a specially designed box made from 100% recycled card, and delivered on a temperature-controlled vehicle with the rest of your Brakes order.
One of the many advantages of buying fresh produce from Brakes is that you get the benefits of knowing it is sourced by Fresh Direct, the leading wholesale greengrocer in the UK, but delivered alongside the rest of your Brakes order. One order, one delivery, one invoice.
We have a range of resources to help you to get the best from your fresh produce order. Our seasonality calendar gives a great overview of what’s in season when, our weekly crop report gives concise updates, our bi-annual market review provides an in-depth picture of the wider fresh produce market, and our regularly updated ‘in season’ blog showcases our seasonal favourites for the month ahead.
Alongside this, we have a highly skilled, dedicated and knowledgeable team of regionally-based fresh produce specialists who will provide expert guidance and bespoke solutions for your business.
Fresh Direct partners with amazing suppliers across the UK and beyond, to deliver exceptional standards of quality and availability year-round. They are committed to using British supply when it’s at its best, helping to lower food miles, and reducing our shared carbon footprint as a result.
Their expert team of buyers work tirelessly to identify opportunities to provide the very best product for your needs.
Yes — we have a wide range of prepared produce including peeled, diced, sliced, shredded, par-cooked and ready-to-cook options. Our solutions can help save you time, reduce labour costs, minimise waste, and maintain consistent portioning.