Image via Wikipedia Most companies that send gift baskets rely heavily on their corporate clients. While baskets are popular for ordinary customers around the holidays, businesses exchange them year round. Why do companies send gift baskets? Well, there are several reasons. The first and most obvious is that gift baskets are versatile and can be stuffed with almost anything. In this article we are going to talk about the traditional fruit basket. For as long as companies have been sending gift baskets they have been sending fruit baskets. Fruit is one of those items that appeals to and can be…
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Continue ReadingWhen you're attempting to give a healthy gift in the form of a fruit basket or edible arrangement, you certainly don't want to leave out grapefruit peel. That doesn't mean you have to peel the grapefruit and put the peel into the basket or arrangement without doing something to make it attractive or tasty. For instance, you can peel the grapefruit and add candied grapefruit peel to the basket or arrangement. Of course, you will take away slightly from the healthy aspect of the grapefruit peel, but since everything else is healthy, you will not risk very much by adding…
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Continue ReadingSo what makes the Texas grapefruit so great? There are many reasons that the Texas grapefruit has been favored for many years. The main reason is that the red grapefruit is grown and raised in Texas. Texas is home of the Ruby Red grapefruit. It all began in 1929 when a red grapefruit was found growing on a pink grapefruit tree. Since the first red grapefruit was discovered, scientists in Texas have developed other red varieties of grapefruit called the Rio Star and Ruby Sweet. These varieties of red grapefruit have the sweet taste and juiciness that the Ruby Red.…
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Continue ReadingImage by megan.barton via Flickr The gift basket may just be the perfect idea for anyone who isn't sure what to send. They are fast, attractive, and affordable. Not to mention the fact that gift baskets can be ordered for nearly any occasion. There are baskets that say “thank you,” “congratulations,” and even those that are sent in sympathy. But probably the most popular reason for sending a gift basket is to thank or impress a business associate. These baskets are often a big hit at offices since bosses often share them with the staff. There's just one problem. Almost…
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Continue ReadingIt's that time of year again. The time of year when everyone has to adjust to going back on a healthy diet after eating and drinking all they wanted during the holidays. It can be really hard to go back to eating the foods you know you should eat instead of the foods that you want to eat. Ruby Red grapefruit can help you back on the right track. Grapefruit can be prepared in many different ways and eaten at all different times of the day so it's a great portable food that everyone can enjoy. It also has less…
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Continue ReadingCooking your own food instead of eating pre-packaged foods is a great way to start eating a healthy diet, and cooking with grapefruit and grapefruit juice can make your home cooked meals even healthier. One of the reasons why so many people have trouble losing weight and maintaining a healthy blood sugar is because of how much processed and refined sugar is in the foods that people eat every day. Foods that you might not even think contain sugar, like pizza dough, often do have sugar to sweeten the taste. The sweeter the taste is the more of that product…
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Continue ReadingImage via Wikipedia The orange was brought to Florida in 1565 by a group of Spanish Explorers. It was an instant hit. Over the next few centuries, farmers planted huge crops of the tropical fruit to satisfy local demand. By the early nineteenth century, demand was so high that the commercial orange industry in Florida was born. Years later, the orange made its way to Texas. Desperate for new agricultural crops, farmers in South Texas planted both sweet oranges and grapefruit. The earliest known citrus crop was cultivated in a region known as the Rio Grande Valley in 1882. Sadly,…
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Continue ReadingOver the years, many myths about grapefruit have emerged and some of these myths advice women to stay away from this fruit. Of course these are just myths so far, there are no studies saying that grapefruit is bad for healthy expectant mothers who are not allergic to citrus fruits. Generally, grapefruit is healthy and it is even recommended by doctors to pregnant women so it is perfectly alright to ship grapefruit to someone who is pregnant. In fact, you may even be doing her a favor if you ship grapefruit to her regularly. Why is it good to ship…
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Continue ReadingDespite many negative comments from detractors, the Grapefruit diet survived the test of time. Introduced as early as the 1930s, the grapefruit diet stimulated the demand for the ruby red citrus fruit and spurred Texas farmers to ship grapefruit by the tons all over the country. Many people predicted that the diet program would die a natural death after a few years but time has proven these people wrong. Several decades after the diet program was introduced, many still believe in it. The diet program had evolved into many versions over the years but it never strayed from its core…
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Continue ReadingImage via Wikipedia Grapefruits are delicious, but they are more than just another tasty fruit. Grapefruit can be used to cure many ailments that plague people every day but aren't serious enough to require a doctor's visit. Grapefruit, like many other natural foods and plants, can be used alone or with other natural elements to provide home remedies for many complaints. It's a smart idea to make sure that you always have some grapefruits, oranges, and lemons in the kitchen because they can be used for so many different things. From cleaning the house to keeping the skin healthy to…