How to Make a Fresh Fruit Salad

A fruit salad combines an assortment of your favorites.

A fresh fruit salad is a healthy addition to any meal and can even be a meal in itself. While a fruit salad is a delicious, nutritional and cool meal for hot summer months, it is good any time of the year. Making a fruit salad at home is easy to do. There are no wrong or right ways to make one. While there are recipes for fruit salads, the best one is one made with your favorite fruits.

Things You'll Need

• Favorite fruits
• Lemon juice

Instructions

1. Gather your favorite fresh fruits or an assortment of seasonal fruits. For summertime, consider blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, watermelon, peaches and mango. For wintertime, consider apples, oranges, kiwis, bananas and pomegranate. For a salad for four, use three or four apples, oranges, peaches and other small fruits, and a small melon.

2. Measure 1 cup of each of the berries you want for the salad.

3. Wash all the fruit without peels under cold running water.

4. Slice the larger fruits, such as watermelon, mangoes and bananas, into bite-sized pieces. Make sure you remove as many seeds as you can. Keep the berries whole.

5. Mix together all the fruit in a large bowl.

6. Sprinkle a tablespoon of lemon juice over the fruit. The lemon juice helps to preserve the color of the fruit. Stir to spread the juice.

7. Serve the fruit salad and refrigerate unused portions.

References

• Home and Garden Ideas; How to Make Fresh Fruit Salad; Katherine Westerhold; January 2011
• Martha Stewart: Tropical Fruit Salad