diff --git a/deployments/deploy-consumer-azurefunction.yaml b/deployments/deploy-consumer-azurefunction.yaml
index 0101823..f21dc48 100644
--- a/deployments/deploy-consumer-azurefunction.yaml
+++ b/deployments/deploy-consumer-azurefunction.yaml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ spec:
         ports:
         - containerPort: 80
         env:
-          - name: APPSETTING_BrokerList
+          - name: BrokerList
             value: kafka.kafka:9092
         resources:
           limits:
diff --git a/fruit-consumer-azurefunction/FruitMessage.cs b/fruit-consumer-azurefunction/FruitMessage.cs
index 197b279..a08ae80 100644
--- a/fruit-consumer-azurefunction/FruitMessage.cs
+++ b/fruit-consumer-azurefunction/FruitMessage.cs
@@ -1,15 +1,52 @@
 using Avro.Util;
+using Confluent.Kafka;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
+using Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization;
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text;
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 
 namespace Fruit.Consumer.AzureFunction
 {
-    public class FruitMessage
+
+    public class FruitMessage : ISerializer<FruitMessage>
+    {
+        public DateTime? now { get; set; }
+        public Fruit? fruit { get; set; }
+
+        public FruitMessage(DateTime now, Fruit fruit)
+        {
+            this.now = now;
+            this.fruit = fruit;
+        }
+        public FruitMessage()
+        {
+        }
+        public byte[] Serialize(FruitMessage data, SerializationContext context)
+        {
+            using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
+            {
+                var settings = new JsonSerializerSettings();
+                settings.ContractResolver = new LowercaseContractResolver();
+                var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(data, Formatting.Indented, settings);
+                var writer = new StreamWriter(ms);
+
+                writer.Write(json);
+                writer.Flush();
+                ms.Position = 0;
+
+                return ms.ToArray();
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    public class LowercaseContractResolver : DefaultContractResolver
     {
-        public Date now;
-        public Fruit fruit;
+        protected override string ResolvePropertyName(string propertyName)
+        {
+            return propertyName.ToLower();
+        }
     }
 }