The last thing numbers on fruit stickers tell you is the supplier or grower of the produce. “For instance, we put the Stemilt logo on our apple stickers so that consumers can look for our brand ...

Clara showed the stickers on a lemon and kiwi fruit and said that the codes, called price look up numbers (PLU), tell you about the use of pesticides use in growing.

THE odds are you have never thought about it before, but there’s a reason the stickers on fruit and veg have numbers on them. As well as having a bar code the stickers boast a PLU code, or pr… ...