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Tomatoes NZers' top 'vegetable' - survey
8:00AM Wednesday April 23, 2008

Tomatoes are New Zealand's favourite vegetable.

Statistics NZ's household economic survey also found bananas were the most popular fruit.

New Zealanders spent $111 million on bananas and $96 million on tomatoes last year.

The top 10 vegetables were: tomatoes, potatoes, lettuce, mushrooms, carrots, capsicums, broccoli, kumara, onions and cucumbers.

Top 10 fruit: bananas, apples, oranges, mandarins, grapes, strawberries, avocados, kiwifruit, pears and nectarines.

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What the report didn't mention is that NZ'ers also spent $243 million on KFC
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...and here I was thinking that tomatoes were fruit....
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