In various forms, fruit salad can be served as an appetizer, salad, or dessert. When served as a snack or dessert, a fruit salad is sometimes called a fruit cocktail (often referring to a canned product) or fruit cup (when served in a small container).
There are many types of fruit salads, from basic (nuts, marshmallows, or no dressing) to moderately sweet (Waldorf salad) and sweet (ragweed salad). Another "salad" that contains fruit is the gel salad, which has many variations. The fruit cocktail is well defined in the US, which means it offers a mix of peaches, pears, pineapple, grapes, and cherries in small pieces (high to low percentage). Fruit salad can also be canned (with pieces of fruit larger than a cocktail).
Description
Fruit salad with kiwis, strawberries, blueberries, pineapples, bananas and oranges
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Fruit salad with chopped marshmallows and chopped walnuts, combined with a syrup dressing
Bowl of fruit salad
There are many types of fruits for a fruit salad, or use a different type of sauce than the fruit juice or syrup. Common ingredients used in fruit salads include strawberries, pineapple, molasses, watermelon, [1] grapes, and kiwis. [2] [3] Various dishes are known to include nuts, fruit juices, some vegetables, yogurt, or other ingredients.
A variation is the Waldorf-style fruit salad, which uses a mayonnaise-based sauce. Other recipes use sour cream (like ambrosia), yogurt, or custard as the base sauce. The fruit salad variation uses whipped cream mixed with a variety of fruits (usually a berry mix) and often even subtle marshmallows. Rozak uses a spicy sauce with Malaysian fruit salad, peanut paste, and shrimp. In the Philippines, fruit salads are a popular holiday and holiday food, usually made with buco or young coconut and condensed milk along with other canned or fresh fruits.
In Mexico there is a well-known variety of fruit salad called bionico, which consists of several fruits dipped in a mixture of condensed milk and sour cream.
Moroccan cuisine also includes a wide range of fruit salads, often part of the chemia, with a selection of appetizers or small plates similar to Spanish tapas or mezzi from the eastern Mediterranean.
Fruit salad ice cream is also often made with small pieces of fruit embedded and flavored with concentrate, fruit extract, or synthetic chemical juices.
Fruit cocktail
The ad features a can, a recipe, and a large bowl of deep-fried canned fruit with white custard and toasted coconut on top.
Advertising of the Del Monte brand fruit cocktail since 1948
Fruit cocktails are often sold canned and are a staple in restaurants, but can also be made fresh. The use of the word "cocktail" in the name does not mean that it contains alcohol, but rather refers to a secondary definition: "appetite produced by combining pieces of food such as fruit or seafood."
It must have fruits in the following range: [4]
6% to 16% pineapple, any type
6% to 20% of total grapes, any variety of seeds
2% to 6% cherry components, light sweet red varieties or artificially colored (such as maraschino cherries [5])
William Vere Cruz of the University of California, Berkeley, and Herbert Gray of the Baron-Gray Packing Company of San Jose, California, are credited with inventing the fruit cocktail. [6] [7] Baron-Gray was the first company to sell fruit cocktails commercially, beginning in the 1930s, and California Packing Corporation began selling them a few years later under its Del Monte brand. [8]
The canned fruit cocktail and canned fruit salad are similar, but the fruit salad has larger fruits, while the fruit cocktail is mixed. [9] Commercially, the fruit used is unhealthy but aesthetically pleasing, with peach or pear bruises on one side. [8] The injured parts are cut and discarded and the rest are cut into small pieces. [8]
In popular culture
"Fruit Salad" (also known as "Fruit Salad Delicious Delicious") is an Australian children's band The Wiggles and the television show Wonder Pets.
"Fruit salad" is a slang term used for medals on soldiers' uniforms, eg. Eg Look at that colonel's fruit salad. The term refers to the vivid colors of the high percentage of ribbons that usually accompany medals. [10]
An alternative name for the Fruit Basket Turnover party game is "Fruit Salad."
