Ingredients for Fruit Salad

Fruit salad is a dish that combines a variety of fresh fruit in their own juices or a syrup. The versatility of fruit salad makes it the perfect dish for an appetizer, side salad or dessert. Some fruit salads are mixed with whipped cream, gelatin, sour cream or yogurt. Sometimes known as fruit cocktail, the wonderful thing about this dish is that it can be modified to anyones tastes, using seasonal, fresh or frozen fruit.

In this free video recipe, our expert will demonstrate how you can make a homemade low calorie fruit salad. You will learn how to count the calories for this tasty and healthy treat, as well as how to slice a variety of fruit for your salad. You will also get easy to follow step-by-step instructions on how to prepare a gelatin mixture for this fruit salad recipe. If you love fruit but are worried about the high sugar and calories of most fruit salads, let our expert show you how you can prepare this tasty but still low calories treat.

"Hi, I'm Erica with Expert Village and I'm talking about how to prepare a low calorie delicious fruit salad. First we need to choose the fruits for the fruit salad. So when you're at the store the first thing that you want to get is a bag of apples. You want bananas, strawberries, also a bag of red grapes, red seedless grapes are preferred."