Why Do We Sent Flowers As Gifts and Not Send Fruit As Gifts?

How many different fruits have you eaten in your lifetime?

How often do you buy fruit? How many different fruits do you buy? Who in your household eats fruit? Do you ever eat fruit cooked? Why do we sent flowers as gifts and not send fruit as gifts?

At the beginning of civilization fruit was the main food of our diet and still is for many species of animals. It continued to be the main food of our diet up until the end of the 20th century. Yet we seem to have put fruit to the bottom of the list of choice when we feed ourselves now.

Unlike many vegetables, fruit can be eaten straight from the tree or bush it is picked from. Many fruits can be eaten without removing the protective skin. Fruit comes in every shape and size you can imagine and in every colour of the rainbow. Fruit also gives us juice which is used in a whole range of drinks.

Each country around the world produces their own range of fruits and depending on demand, we can see some of those fruits exported and on the shelves of supermarkets in other countries. There are at least a hundred different fruits even without the variations of those fruits. To taste some of these fruits you would have to visit the country they are produced in as they are only produced in enough volume for the local population.

Other fruits are a major export product for the countries that produce them. In the western world the main fruits we see on our supermarkets shelves are:

Apples, Apricots, Bananas, Cantaloupe, Dates, Figs, Grapefruit, Grapes, Kiwifruit, Lemon/Limes, Mango, Oranges, Pears, Peaches, Pineapple, Plums, Prunes, Raisins, Rhubarb, Raspberries, Strawberries, Watermelon.

Uncut fruit has little aroma but when fruit is cut or crushed each fruit has a unique aroma that smells fresh and tropical. We are attracted to food by sight if it is in view but also by smell, even if not in view. The aroma of fruit is rarely an insult to the senses but we rarely buy fruit because we can smell it, because it is never on sale cut or crushed.

Fruit and vegetables are natural foods that can, not only sustain our diets, but also give us all the vitamins we need. Although you can pick vegetables and eat them raw we rarely do, so we generally cook them first with additional spices and sauces to make them more edible. Also vegetables need to be replanted in the ground before harvesting each season.

Fruit on the other hand can be picked from the tree or bush and eaten in its natural state and is at its best for nutrition and vitamins. Fruit trees and bushes will bear new fruit each season without much attention other than pruning.

So why do we not give fruit as a gift as often as we do give flowers? Maybe it is that fruit, in its natural state, is not always as pretty as flowers in a bouquet. What if you could buy fruit as an edible bouquet, would you like it as a gift?

Maybe at the next wedding you attend you will find they have wedding table decorations that are not flower arrangements or ornaments, but edible fresh fruit bouquets. Not only will you admire these fruit bouquets but you can eat them during or at the end of your meal, especially appetizing when some of the fruit is dipped in chocolate.

http://www.EdibleBouquets.co.uk launched here in the UK in mid 2007 and is a family run business by a daughter and mother partnership. Their range of edible fresh fruit bouquets, have developed into a number of different fresh fruit gifts. There are over thirty different styles of bouquets, each arranged and presented like a bouquet of flowers. There are also a dozen different fresh fruit platters and over two dozen fresh fruit boxed presentations. They have a second website http://www.wedding-table-decorations.com which offers table bouquets, favors and centerpieces.

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