FAQs

Fruta Feia CRL currently operates fifteen times a week, from 17h to 21h:

In Lisbon: on Mondays at Campo Mártires da Pátria (Galeria Monumental - Campo dos Mártires da Pátria 101, 1150-227 Lisboa), Telheiras (Lagar - Rua Professor Francisco Gentil 33, 1600-622 Lisboa) and Alvalade (Parque de Jogos 1º de Maio - Av. Rio de Janeiro, 1700-330 Lisboa), on Tuesdays in Rato (Mercado do Rato - Rua Alexandre Herculano 64, 1250-096 Lisboa) and Marvila (Sociedade Musical 3 d'Agosto, Rua de Marvila 34, 1950-200 Lisboa), on Wednesdays at Graça (Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa - Campo de Santa Clara, 144, 1100-471 Lisboa) and São Domingos de Benfica (Mercado de São Domingos de Benfica - Rua Cecília Meireles, 1500-154 Lisboa), and on Thursdays at Mercado de Arroios (R. Ângela Pinto 40D, 1900-221 Lisboa).

In Amadora: on Wednesdays in Mercado da Falagueira (Praceta Regueira, 2700-709 Amadora).

In Almada: on Tuesdays in CIAV - Centro de Interpretação de Almada Velha (Largo Conde Ferreira 11A, 2800-133 Almada). 

In Cascais: on Thursdays in Parede Market (Rua 31 de Janeiro, 6, 2775-271 Parede) and in S. Domingos de Rana (SRUZ - Rua do Zambujal, 540, 2785-689 S. Domingos de Rana).

In Matosinhos, on Mondays in the former EB1 school of Cruz de Pau (Rua da Cruz de Pau, 153, 4450-104 Matosinhos).

In Vila Nova de Gaia, on Tuesdays in Ginásio Torne (Rua 14 de Outubro, 264, 4430-046 Gaia). 

In Oporto: on Wednesdays in Cedofeita (Cedofeita's shopping galleries: Rua de Cedofeita, 451, 4050-181 Porto) and on Thursdays on Hotelier (Rua de Anselmo Braancamp 324, 4000-079 Porto).

However, our boxes are only available to consumers that already are associated to the Co-op. 

To sign up as an associated consumer, please register here.

To become an associated consumer at Fruta Feia Co-Op, you have to pay an annual administrative fee worth 5 €. With this fee you will be given a member’s card and a cloth bag. Every week you’ll pay for your box, worth 3,90 € in case you choose the small box, and 7,80 € in case you choose the big box.

Fruta Feia’s main goal is to reduce food wastage due to aesthetical reasons. Every product that is rejected by the regular distribution channels due to an unwanted shape and/or size, is a potential product for Fruta Feia, regardless of being grown in a organic, integrated or conventional production. However, and given the environmentally responsible nature of Fruta Feia, we only work with local farmers.

You must cancel your box until the cancelation deadline, through your consumer area on our website, acessing at www.frutafeia.pt and starting session at your superior right corner. Once in your consumer area, in "O Meu Painel" you'll have to click in "Não quero recolher a cesta desta entrega"

In case the cancelation deadline has gone by, you can place your box to sell clicking in "Colocar a cesta para venda" also through your consumer area at www.frutafeia.pt

Since Fruta Feia's goal is to fight food wastage, whenever an associated consumer forgets to pick up their box, the Co-op offers it to avoid throwing the products that compose it to the garbage. This situation originates a cost because the products were previously bought to the farmers. According to the regulation and excepting situations related with health or family issues, this cost must be sustanied by the associates that don't pick up the boxes.

We remind that, in case it's totally impossible to warn until the deadline due to an unforseen event, try asking someone to pick it up for you or contact us through the number that was given to you when you joined as a member, so that we can try and sell it to someone else.

Fruta Feia Co-Op does not foresee home deliveries, in order to avoid the environmental and economic costs of door-to-door deliveries of thousands of boxes each week.

The big distributors’ current preference for aesthetically perfect fruit and vegetables has been largely imposed by consumers that went to the supermarket and chose the most "beautiful fruit", rejecting the others.

From the moment that “ugly” fruits and vegetables stopped being a product to the consumer, they also stopped being a product to supermarkets and distributors. As such, we felt that it was the time for consumers to unite, to say enough, and to get these products back on the market. The consumer’s co-operative model matched Fruta Feia's goal perfectly because, as a non-profit organization, every possible profit is directed to the growth of the project and every member is part of it.