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fruit salad
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dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes served in a liquid, either in their own juices or a syrup
Key facts
- Alternative names
- Fruit cocktail, fruit cup
- Type
- Salad
- Course
- Appetizer , dessert , snack , main meal
- Main ingredients
- Fruit , fruit juice or syrup
- Variations
- Macedonia
via Wikipedia infobox
Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 18 products
- Energy
- 52 kcal
- Fat
- 0.2 g
- — of which saturates
- 0.1 g
- Carbohydrates
- 15.1 g
- — of which sugars
- 13.2 g
- Fibre
- 0.6 g
- Protein
- 0.4 g
- Salt
- 0.01 g
via Open Food Facts · ODbL
Nutrition
Per 100 g · Fruit salad, (peach and pear and apricot and pineapple and cherry), canned, juice pack, solids and liquids
- Energy
- 50 kcal
- Protein
- 0.51 g
- Fat
- 0.03 g
- Carbohydrate
- 13 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 5 mg
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Encyclopedic overview
Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes served in a liquid, either their juices or a syrup. In different forms, fruit salad can be served as an appetizer or a side as a salad. A fruit salad is sometimes known as a fruit cocktail (often connoting a canned product), or fruit cup (when served in a small container).
There are many types of fruit salad, ranging from the basic (no nuts, marshmallows, or dressing) to the moderately sweet (Waldorf salad) to the sweet (ambrosia salad). Another "salad" containing fruit is a jello salad, with its many variations. A fruit cocktail is well-defined in the US to mean a well-distributed mixture of small diced pieces of (from highest percentage to lowest) peaches, pears, pineapple, grapes, and cherry halves. Fruit salad may also be canned (with larger pieces of fruit than a cocktail).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fruit salad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.