Products - Koray Watermelon

Koray Fresh Produce

Speedy Delivery!

We pride ourselves on ensuring a fast and reliable shipping service from the farm to your door, ensuring we keep our fruit nice and fresh and our customers happy.

Our Range of Fresh Products

Our Watermelon imports are sourced from all over Europe and the surrounding regions with a particular focus on produce from Greece, due to its excellent quality.

Other countries include: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Macedonia, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain and Turkey. The Watermelon season in the UK starts in late spring with the early crop of melons arriving around April from Spain, Iran, Morocco, Tunisia and Cyprus.

By June the Greek watermelons are ready for harvest and are supplied to the UK market until the end of the season – usually late September. We import round and long watermelons in different sizes starting from 5kg and going up to 30kg.

When choosing your watermelons, look for the Koray logo so that you can be sure that each melon has been given a personal inspection by our expert team at Koray Watermelon

Crop Varieties

The varieties of watermelons we import include:
Amarillo – Seedless – Samanta – Galaxy – Crimson – Dumara – Karavan – Atlas – Florida – Celebration – Mara – Vista – Torpilla – Farao

Storage and Handling Guidelines

Watermelon stored at 10 to 16 °C with a relative humidity of 90% will be acceptable for up to 3 weeks.
Watermelons held in dry storage below 24 °C will have approximate shelf life of up to 10 days. If dry storage temperatures are above 75 °C, shelf life will decline to 5 days. At temperatures between 0 and 7 °C, watermelons are subject to chilling injury that may result in pitting, off-flavours, and colour loss.
Watermelons may become mushy and shelf life may be reduced when exposed to ethylene gas producing fruit such as apples, stone fruits, and grapes.
Store watermelons at 5 °C or below for up to 24 hours prior to cutting to reduce the amount of time is takes
Whole melons with visible signs of decay or damaged rinds (such as mechanical damage or cracking) have an increased risk of containing harmful bacteria.
Wash the outer surface of the watermelon thoroughly under cool, running tap water. Scrub melons with a clean produce brush before cutting. Cut away any bruised or damaged areas before serving.
Cover, date, and refrigerate cut watermelon. Use by the following day for best quality.
Hold and serve watermelon at 5 °C. Do not store cut watermelon at room temperature. If possible, display cut melons in a refrigerated case, not just on top of ice. Take and record serving line temperatures.
Discard cut watermelon after 2 hours in the temperature danger zone (5 °C to 57 °C)

Our Promise

Provide the freshest, safest, highest quality watermelon.

Pack and ship watermelon quickly. We work with packinghouses close to the farms and growing regions. Thus, once the watermelon is harvested it is brought to the local packinghouse within hours to be packed and shipped.

Plant what our customers need. Koray Watermelon started by asking what qualities were most important to our customers and growing fruit that matched those needs. We’ve searched for growers and producers who only use the best seed and the best techniques.

Promise it and perfect it. Our passion for perfection and quality provides our customers with only the best watermelon.

The Koray Watermelon difference stems from strict growing practices and harvesting fruit at its peak to ensure you get the quality you deserve. The result is a company focused on the goal of providing only the best tasting watermelon.

Our Core Values

Grow the highest quality produce
Communicate at all levels
Create respectful partnerships
Care about our local communities
Exceed our customer’s expectations
Constantly evolve

We thank you for choosing Koray Watermelon

New Season!

Fresh Stock

Watermelon season runs throughout the summer — from May to September — but the exact range depends on where you live and from where your fruit is supplied. You can’t miss these big guys, and there will be plenty at peak season.

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