Grocery Guides
Learn all things grocery from picking produce at its freshest to finding what’s in season. Know the difference between alfalfa and clover sprouts? Or when to get yams vs sweet potatoes? Get answers here.
Grocery Guides
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Looking for information on produce, drinks, or other things on your grocery shopping list? Instacart’s new grocery guides explore everything from how to identify the freshest fruit to how to cut and store your favorite vegetable. Explore tips & tricks on the easiest way to cook quinoa to how to preserve nutrients in your fresh produce. Why? Here at Instacart, we believe that the meaning…
Apr 14, 2021
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Fruit Wine – All You Need to Know | Instacart’s Guide to Groceries
What is fruit wine? Fruit wine refers to wine not made from grapes. They are made from fermented fruit juice, though floral wine and honey wine-like mead often fall into the fruit wine category. These…
Apr 18, 2022
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Buffalo Sauce – All You Need to Know | Instacart’s Guide to Groceries
What is Buffalo sauce? Buffalo sauce is a type of hot sauce that's different from other types of hot sauces in that it's made with cayenne pepper and a fat, usually butter. The butter in Buffalo sauce…
Apr 15, 2022
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20 of the Best Summer Fruits to Eat and Buy
Summer fruits are fresh, sweet, aromatic fruits that grow in the summer months. They can include stone fruits such as peaches; tropical fruits such as mango, pineapple, melons, and papaya; as well as berries like blueberries and…
Apr 15, 2022
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Peanut Sauces – All You Need to Know | Instacart’s Guide to Groceries
What is peanut sauce? Peanut sauce, also known as satay sauce, sambal kacang, bumbu kacang, or pecel, is a sauce made from ground-up fried or roasted peanuts. It’s popular in Indonesian and Thai cooking and is often added…
Apr 14, 2022
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Enchilada Sauces – All You Need to Know | Instacart’s Guide to Groceries
What is enchilada sauce? Enchilada sauces are smooth, chili-based sauces that include salsa roja (red enchilada sauce), chile con queso (cheese-based sauce), verde sauce (green enchilada sauce), and mole sauces. As the name suggests, enchilada sauces are one…
Mar 31, 2022
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Gravies – All You Need to Know | Instacart’s Guide to Groceries
What are gravies? Gravies are rich sauces popular in American cuisine. In a nutshell, they're a mixture of fat, flour, and liquid. Although most recipes use the juices that flow from slow-cooked meat, vegetarian gravies exist…
Mar 30, 2022
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Soy Sauces – All You Need to Know | Instacart’s Guide to Groceries
What is soy sauce? Soy sauce is a brown, salty condiment typically served with Asian foods, like potstickers and sushi. This super flavorful, umami-packed liquid is made by fermenting soybeans and wheat along with salt and…
Mar 29, 2022
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Perch – All You Need to Know | Instacart’s Guide to Groceries
What are perch? Many types of fish are a part of the perch, or Percidae, family, including yellow perch, walleye, and sauger. However, not all fish with "perch" in their name are true members of the…
Mar 28, 2022
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Navy Beans – All You Need to Know | Instacart’s Guide to Groceries
What are navy beans? When you hear the term "navy beans" you might imagine a dark-blue-colored food. However, navy beans aren't navy in color at all! They're actually small, pea-sized white beans that are closely related to…
Mar 24, 2022