These Jewels Give the Perfect Daily Dose of Fruit and Vegetables

By Karen Dybis | June 26, 2025

Foodie themes are having a moment across the fashion industry, and jewelry brands are jumping in with new collections that represent sweet fruity goodness for summertime.

Four brands that span the fashion to fine jewelry gamut are making food a major summertime expression. From juicy strawberries to pretty peapods to tiny tomatoes, they’ve crafted pieces with joy and nostalgia for all those sunny days.

Little Words Project
LWP just debuted its Farmer’s Market collection of fruit and veggie charms—a bulb of garlic, a lemon wedge, a bunch of grapes, an ear of corn, a crate of oranges, and more—as well as new themed versions of the brand’s signature word-centric bracelets. This is Little Words’ freshest drop yet, jokes company founder Adriana Carrig, and giftable for high school graduates or warm-weather birthdays.

Farm Stand Little Words — *Little Words Project founder Adriana Carrig models the brand’s new Farmer’s Market charms and bracelets, with phrases like Sunshine and Touch Grass.*

“The Farmer’s Market collection is more than sweet—pun intended. It’s a celebration of joy, nostalgia, and self-expression,” Carrig says. “This collection taps into that moment with Little Words Project’s unique perspective. I hope it serves as a reminder to embrace the little things, savor what’s sweet, and wear the things that make you smile.”

Jessica McCormack fruit earrings — Fruit Salad earrings with 1.04 cts. t.w. emeralds, 1.66 cts. t.w. yellow sapphires, 1.51 cts. t.w. rubies, and 1.81 cts. t.w. blue sapphires (all gems round brilliant-cut) in 18k blackened white and yellow gold; Jessica McCormack

Jessica McCormack
The London-based designer looked to blooming countryside orchards and the delightful treats produced there for a new 17-piece Fruit Salad collection.

Jessica McCormack is known for 18k gold and intricately set pavé diamonds, and Fruit Salad commits fully to this look, using rubies, sapphires, and emeralds to center the vivid colors of her favorite fruits: peaches, pears, apples, cherries, and lemons. Each stone is meticulously set to bring out the natural shading and tonal gradients of each fruit.

Fruit Salad also includes a fruit-full version of McCormack’s classic diamond necklace. The collection’s hero is the impressive pear pendant, which showcases a polished 20.25 ct. emerald carved into the shape of a pear.

Cece fig pendant — *Fig for Temptation Charm in 18k yellow gold, champlevé enamel, and star-set diamonds, $9,672; Cece Jewellery*

Cece Jewellery
A small summer collection, For the Love of Fruit, consists of five fruit pendants and one necklace that holds them all. The brand describes the capsule as “a jubilant celebration of life’s fleeting sweetness.”

Each pendant is crafted of 18k yellow gold, in Cece Jewellery’s signature buttery brushed gold tone, with champlevé enamel, star-set diamonds, and engraving. And each fruit holds a different meaning: pear for beauty, peach for abundance, cherry for desire, and lemon for purity.

The standout may be the Fig for Temptation charm. According to Cece Jewellery, the fig is a symbol of forbidden pleasure, making it a cheeky fruit to wear on jewelry. Thanks to the brand’s impressive techniques and color selection, the fruit, with its purplish-gray hue and ripe flesh, looks ready to eat—a real summer delight.

Anabela Chan Fruit rings — *From top: Sapphire Plankton Elixir ring, $1,946; Ruby Beetroot Elixir ring, $1,946; Emerald Spirulina Elixir ring, $1,946; Anabela Chan*

Anabela Chan
The British jeweler introduced her innovative Fruit Gems collection this week, and it is a blend of art, science, and jewelry. The synthesized gemstones are colored with pigments and compounds from various fruit and vegetables. Chan’s goal was to take something that otherwise would have been wasted (in this case, food) and use it to make something precious—and definitely wearable for generations.

“I love stories about food—my favorite Netflix series is Chef’s Table,” Chan says. “When I was researching food waste globally, I learnt that a staggering 40% of all food produced and available in the west are thrown away as excess, every year. This equates to 9.5 million tons of food waste in the U.K. annually, with 44 million tons of food going to landfills in the U.S. alone every year.

“I thought to myself, What if we can take perfectly good fruits and vegetables beyond their sell-by dates and turn them into a new genre of gemstones synthesized from natural matters?”

Chan says it took four years for her and her team to come up with methods to extract the colors she has in Fruit Gems jewelry.

“We use carotenoids, contributing red and orange, from dragonfruits and tomatoes; flavonoids, contributing yellows, from carrots and lemons; betalains, contributing red and purple, from beetroots and purple sweet potatoes; anthocyanins, contributing blue, from blueberries and spirulina; and chlorophyll green from spinach and plankton,” she explains.

Top: Cece Jewellery has introduced a series of fruit and vegetable charms as part of its summertime jewelry offerings. (Photos courtesy of the brands)