American

Fruit Cup

Name: Fruit Cup
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cups mixed fresh fruit (melon, grapes, pineapple); 1 tsp lemon juice

Carol Jean @grandma_carolj

Fruit Cup is American home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Heart healthy Low sodium Vegetarian Vegan Halal Pescatarian Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

3 cups mixed fresh fruit (melon, grapes, pineapple)
1 tsp lemon juice

How to cook it

Cut the melon and pineapple into bite-size pieces and combine with the grapes in a bowl.
Toss with a squeeze of lemon juice to keep the fruit bright.
Divide into cups and serve chilled.

Watch how to cook Fruit Cup

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Easy Fruit Cups Play the video

Serve it with

A American dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Fruit Cup, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Sweet Potato and Black Bean Stew
  
  45 min
The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Corn
  
  8 min
What it is eaten with
- Baked Potato
  
  60 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Fruit Cup carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Fruit Cup
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 60 kcal
Protein: 1 g
Carbs: 15 g
Fat: 0 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 13 g
Sodium: 0 mg
Saturated fat: 0 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Fruit Cup takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.