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Rainbow Fruit Salad Recipe {Kid-Friendly with No Added Sugar!}

By Erika in Food for Kids

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I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for creative ways to get my kids to eat their fruit and veggies. If you can relate, you will love this colorful rainbow fruit bowl. More importantly, your kids will too!

Rainbow fruit salad in a red bowl this idea now...

 

Kid-Friendly Rainbow Fruit Salad

This recipe is from my 9-year-old son, Nathan. But don’t let that scare you off -it’s super easy and really good! We were putting together a fruit salad recipe one day and he realized that it had all the colors of the rainbow, so he named it Rainbow Fruit Salad.

Rainbow fruit salad is a deliciously fresh fruit salad with your favorite fruits and no added sugar. It’s so easy to make, the kids can help!

Basically, you put together any and all fruits that you like. It’s completely up to you. Plus, it doesn’t have to be a rainbow. But according to Nathan it is better that way. Haha.

We make this all the time because it’s so easy and my kids love it. They could eat fruit all day, but they particularly enjoy eating this simple fruit salad because they get to help make it and choose the ingredients. Mixing it all up together makes it even more fun.

Rainbow Fruit – How to Make a Simple Fruit Salad

Have you ever noticed how colorful fruit is? If you have a child struggling to eat fruit and veggies, make sure to point out the bright hues – it really does help! 

Fruit to Use

The beauty of this rainbow fruit recipe is you can use any fruit you’d like! If you want a good starting point, here’s what we used:

colorful rainbow fruit on a table

  • watermelon
  • cantaloupe
  • strawberries
  • blueberries
  • grapes
  • peaches
  • bananas
  • canned pineapple (it’s better if you use fresh pineapple, but I didn’t have any on hand), drained
  • kiwi
  • limes/lemons

How to Make Rainbow Fruit Salad

Chop, cut, peel the fruit as needed. This is where the older kids can help. For example, Emily helped cut up the strawberries.

child cutting strawberries for a rainbow fruit bowl

Nathan helped me cut the watermelon. Plus, even Joshua helped pick grapes off the stems (I only found 2 or 3 stems in the bowl later!)

baby picking stems off of blueberries

In fact, the only one who didn’t help was Luke. He was napping, which was a good thing, because he would have just eaten everything. My kids love fruit.

Once everything is chopped:

  1. Drain the pineapple (if you used canned).
  2. Gently combine everything except the kiwi, bananas, and lemon/lime in a large bowl.
  3. I save the kiwis and bananas until the last minute because they’re more delicate. Also, note that the bananas do turn brown overnight, so don’t put this together the night before. In fact, if you plan on this lasting more than a day or two, you may want to skip the bananas altogether or just slice a few into individual serving bowls.
  4. Finally, I cut the lemon and lime in half and squeeze the fresh juice all over the fruit salad. You don’t have to do this step, but I think it adds a nice extra tang to the salad.

close up of colorful rainbow fruit

Scoop out a nice big bowl and enjoy your Rainbow Fruit Salad recipe! My whole family did!

kids eating a simple fruit salad at the dinner table

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A deliciously fresh fruit salad with your favorite fruits and no added sugar. So easy the kids can help!

  • Author: Erika Bragdon

Ingredients

  • any fruits you like
  • watermelon
  • cantaloupe
  • strawberries
  • blueberries
  • grapes
  • peaches
  • bananas
  • pineapple, fresh or canned (drained)
  • kiwis
  • limes/lemons

Instructions

  1. Chop, peel, etc. the fruit as needed. Drain the canned pineapple.
  2. Combine everything, except the kiwis, bananas, and lemon/limes.
  3. Slice the lemon and lime in half and squeeze 1 slice of each over the fruit.
  4. Add the kiwi and bananas just before serving.

Notes

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Nutrition

  • Calories: 908
  • Sugar: 167g
  • Sodium: 42mg
  • Fat: 4g
  • Saturated Fat: 3g
  • Unsaturated Fat: 3g
  • Carbohydrates: 233g
  • Fiber: 30g
  • Protein: 14g

 

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    Filed Under: Food for Kids, Recipes, Salads Tagged With: fruitPublished on February 15, 2021

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    About Erika

    Erika Bragdon is a flower essence practitioner and a second-generation homeschooling mom with 3 kids at home and 1 in college. She enjoys her chickens, goats, and gardening on a small farm in New Hampshire, and is passionate about sharing flower essences and more ways to renew body, mind, and soul with moms.

    Comments

    1. Kendra says

      August 9, 2012 at 11:15 am

      This looks really good! I wish I could get my son to eat fruits but he won’t even try them. In the meantime, I’ll just make it for myself 🙂

      Reply
      • Erika says

        August 11, 2012 at 10:39 am

        Maybe he would try this! My kids all love fruit, but they were even more eager because this was “rainbow” colors. I love how they think, haha!
        Thanks for stopping by, Kendra!

        Reply
    2. Nichol says

      August 9, 2012 at 9:00 pm

      Fruit salad is the best! I could go for a bowl right now:)

      Reply
      • Erika says

        August 11, 2012 at 10:39 am

        I know! I love it too!

        Reply
    3. Jeana says

      August 10, 2012 at 9:24 pm

      We love fruit salad! It’s the perfect summertime treat!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        August 11, 2012 at 11:01 am

        Yes it is!

        Reply
    4. Sue H. says

      August 10, 2012 at 10:37 pm

      I’m definitely going to make this. It sounds so good right now. Thanks for sharing!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        August 11, 2012 at 11:01 am

        Great! Thanks for stopping by, Sue!

        Reply
    5. Angela says

      August 11, 2012 at 10:41 am

      Your kids are so cute! It’s great to see them enjoying their fruit. Beautiful pics – pinning this now!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        August 11, 2012 at 11:01 am

        Thanks, Angela!

        Reply
    6. Marina says

      August 11, 2012 at 10:44 am

      Love the combination of all my fave fruits…and lemons too. Have to try this out this weekend. Yum!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        August 11, 2012 at 11:02 am

        Thanks, Marina!

        Reply
    7. Heather ~ Acting Balanced Mom says

      August 11, 2012 at 10:46 am

      What a great rainbow fruit salad! Your son is bound to become quite the chef!

      Reply
      • Erika says

        August 11, 2012 at 11:03 am

        Thanks, Heather! I’ll tell him you said that -he’ll be very pleased!

        Reply
    8. Nikole H. says

      August 13, 2012 at 3:29 pm

      I think your son is right, it is better with all the colors of the rainbow! Well, my daughter may not eat all the fruits included, but I will 😉

      Reply
    9. Lillea says

      September 30, 2012 at 3:45 am

      I often find that good ripe strawberries stain the rest of a fruit salad so I prefer to include them at the last

      Reply
    10. Kathy Smith says

      December 12, 2012 at 8:19 pm

      I like your easy fruit salad, I could eat the whole bowl. This is a good way for children to try different fruits.

      Reply
    11. Fee (Phyllis) Roberts says

      December 13, 2012 at 4:41 am

      I love all kinds of salad, especially fruit salads. This looks amazing! =D

      Reply
    12. Amanda Greene-Lebeck says

      March 4, 2013 at 1:12 am

      Oh my daughter loves to help me in the kitchen and she definitely would love to help me cut up all the fruit, she’s just learning to use a knife, and she is really proud of herself:)

      Reply
    13. Theresa James says

      February 5, 2017 at 6:59 pm

      I love fruit salad it makes you feel fresh inside.

      Reply
      • Erika says

        February 8, 2017 at 10:53 am

        I love that, Theresa!

        Reply

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