Find Dried Fruit Baskets Online
Long before foods were frozen, canned, or mixed with preservatives, human beings relied on natural methods of food preservation. They used sugar, salt, vinegar, and alcohol to keep food edible during the winter months when food was scarce. Probably the oldest natural method of food preservation, ccording to anthropologists, was drying fruit out in the sun.
Raisins (dried grapes) were eaten as early as 4000 BC. Other fruits like apricots, figs, plums, and dates were later dried and enjoyed as a delicacy. Many fruit lovers actually preferred dried fruits to fresh ones because they were sweeter and more intense. Dried fruit remains a popular treat, especially in fruit baskets online.
What is the appeal?
Fruit delivery companies have flourished in recent years with the help of the internet. Online sellers have cut costs to the bone, since they have no need for expensive brick and mortar stores. They can then pass these savings on to their customers. Fruit baskets online can now be purchased for as little as twenty dollars. Not surprisingly, demand has increased.
Fruit sellers on the internet now offer impressive catalogues of fresh and dried fruits. Both are popular, but dried fruit baskets are better-suited for the workplace. The reason for this is simple, they won’t
spoil. By comparison, a large fruit basket that is sent to a place of business often has to be tossed before it is enjoyed. Fresh fruit will only keep for about a week.
Another thing we love about dried fruit baskets is that they contain a much larger varieties of fruits. Because they take up less space than fresh fruit, sellers often include half a dozen of more dried fruits. The sample basket we reviewed contained dried apricots, cherries, dates, prunes, sweet pears, figs, apples and pineapple slices. By comparison, most fresh fruit baskets only include three or four different kinds of fruits. An arrangement of apples, oranges, bananas, and pears is fairly standard.
People can usually find something they like in a dried fruit basket. We should also mention that they are quite a bit cheaper than fresh fruit baskets. Because dried fruit and not nearly as heavy as fresh fruit, shipping costs are more affordable.
What to look for?
When buying dried fruit baskets online it is important to consider the preservation process. To save time and money, many growers uses chemicals and sugars to preserve their fruit instead of simply drying it out in the sun. As you might imagine, this makes for a less healthy, less palatable final product.
That is why we strongly suggest shoppers only purchase sun-dried fruit baskets online. Small sample baskets start at only around twenty dollars.
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