Southside Produce Co Inc — Local services in Baton Rouge

08/17/2024 What should I do with a green potato? Always use caution if small areas of greening are found in tubers because they contain elevated levels of solanine. Removing the green portions by simply cutting them out will eliminate most of the toxin. However, if more extensive greening occurs, throw the tuber away.

07/13/2023

Parsely: We bought 3 parsley bunches. They looked green and fresh. Went home, they were 3 bunches of anything but parsley. Buches of non-parsley plants.

Tomatoes:

All tomatoes regardless the source or the type are not ripe.

Bananas:

What are solid green bananas good for? Not a clue. You buy them and have to wait 3 or 4 days before they can be eaten.

Potatoes:

When potatoes are exposed to light, they produce chlorophyll, a pigment that turns them green. Chlorophyll itself is completely harmless, but it can signal the presence of a toxin called Solanine.

Why is it they do not turn the AC on? I know it is cold outside, but when you get inside, the air is stagnant.

Produce used to be better. Then they had the renovation plans. Produce got bad. Now that the new building has been open for business, unlike what they have been saying, AC is never felt in this place.

Most of the greens looks old. We have bought potatoes several times, they have dark rings when we started peeling them.

We went today, could not get potatoes, mexican zucchini, etc... You touch them they feel soft and not fresh, solid, and zucchini look spotty.

Yesterday my wife went and bought some potatoes. She picked the best. She got how and started to core them, the were mushy and too soft. She threw them away.

Recently we bought some "good looking" red apple. We touched, felt and picked. Got home, took a bite and apple was very soft you could juice it.

I think the frequent moving produce to the coolers and bringing them out the next day to too warm of a place destroy the produce.

Management and employees are very nice., but they still have some good stuff but the store can stand improvement regarding the quality of...

MANY THANKS TO BERGERON PECANS WHO REPLACED THE TWO BAD BAGS OF PECANS THAT SOUTHSIDE REFUSED TO REPLACE OR REFUND MONEY EVEN WITH RECEIPT!!

We bought 2 lbs of pecans that were almost 8$ a pound and came home to make pralines. The pecans were rank and not good. We brought the receipt and the pecans back and they refused to refund them because they were purchased more than 2 days ago. I stated that pecans should not go bad in two days and left mad. I should have taken them with me but was too mad. They tasted the pecans and said they were fine and I feel as customer I was treated rudely after waiting for at least 15 minutes. I waited they smelled them and went to the back came back tasted them went to back again, I guess to the manger who never came out to even consider what I was stating. And they told me they tasted them and they were fine. They were not fine they were last years pecans and would have ruined the candy. I cannot believe that a business would do this and not support the public. I will never buy a thing from this business again.

Many thanks to Bergeron pecans who replaced the 2 bags of pecans that SOUTHSIDE PRODUCE REFUSE TO REPLACE. HORRIBLE WAY TO DO...

A legitimate local treasure.

Anybody in town who is still buying produce from Walmart needs to stop. Southside has local produce that tastes better, is way cheaper, and is not force ripened or imported from unknown regions. The vast majority of the food there is locally grown.

If you're looking for fruit bearing trees, you can almost always find them right outside the market. Inside, a plethora of fruit awaits!

There are bags of fruit in the freezer section peeled and quartered and ready to go. Bags of prepared vegetables in the freezer section. A large selection of dry beans, several different types of potatoes, onions, you name it.

There are also occasionally herb plants and flowering plants. There are shelving units full of different kinds of pickled items.

They also often have our daily bread there. During Mardi Gras, you can get several different types of king cakes but the most exciting one that you can get is a gallet de rois, much like the ones you'll...