Categories: Food & Drink

15 Creative And Easy Ways To Enjoy Fruit

Fruit is a healthy and refreshing treat for everyone. However, just eating some plain fruit can get boring after a while and fruit rots so quickly it is hard to keep any stocked in the fridge for too long. So, as a fruit-lover myself, I have compiled the perfect list of fifteen creative and easy ways to enjoy fruit when you just don’t feel like eating a banana.

1. Fruit-infused water:

Chop up your favorite fruits into small pieces and put them in a pitcher, bottle, or glass of water for a flavorful twist of regular water. There are many benefits to drink fruit-infused water such as immune defense, appetite control, blood sugar management, and weight management. The sky is the limit for which fruits you want to include but a few of my favorites are strawberries, raspberries, oranges, watermelon, and kiwi.

2. Fruit ice cubes

If you don’t like the idea of letting the bits of fruit soak in the water, another trick is to make fruit ice cubes. Simply cut up your favorite fruit and put them in an ice tray with water, or just freeze bits of fruit and throw the cubes in your glass. Another trick is to just pour fruit juice in an ice tray and let the juice freeze into their own little ice cubes. Fruit ice cubes are way more aesthetic than regular ice cubes anyways!

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3. Honey lime basil peach fruit salad

This crisp and refreshing blend of peaches, blackberries, blueberries, and pomegranate seeds topped with honey, lime, and basil is perfect for a hot summer day.

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4. Mojito fruit salad

Give your fruit a little boozy spritz by tossing watermelon, strawberries, and blueberries in with lime juice, mint leaves and rum (optional)!

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5. Pineapple mango smoothie

Smoothies are a great way to enjoy your favorite fruits because they are easy-to-make, fresh, and delicious. You can make your smoothies right before you leave the house or prepare bags of ingredients ahead of time for when you’re crunched for time. The fun part about smoothies is that there are already hundreds of different recipes you can choose from or you can just wing the ingredients with whatever you have at home, and odds are, that it will still be delicious.  Just blend together the five simple ingredients of pineapple, mango, coconut milk, honey, and turmeric.

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6. Peanut butter banana smoothie

Combine banana, milk, yogurt, and peanut butter. Top with a drizzle of peanut butter and cut up banana.

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7. Quick and easy fruit pizza

I genuinely believe that there is no problem that cannot be solved by fruit pizza. Simply roll out some cookie dough mix, cream cheese frosting and top with your favorite fruits. Serve fruit pizza immediately after cooling or refrigerate it for a couple hours to let all the different flavors marinate.  This particular recipe calls for a marshmallow frosting and strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, and blueberries.

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8. The best fruit pizza

For this recipe, load your fruit pizza with kiwi, blueberries, blackberries, grapes and apricot jam. Top it off with a sprig of mint.

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9. Greek yogurt fruit bark

Do you like your fruit mixed with creamy yogurt but just don’t have time to make it every day? Try freezing this delicious duo for the perfect crunchy snack. Simply choose your favorite fruits, top with yogurt, and freeze. Yup! It really is that simple!

The ingredients for this recipe include Greek yogurt maple syrup, vanilla extract, mini chocolate chips, chopped nuts, and fresh fruit. Simply mix all of the ingredients and then pour them onto a pan. Make sure the ingredients are evenly spread out before topping them with the yogurt. Freeze the ingredients for three hours and then slice up the bark for serving.

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10. Frozen yogurt bark with berries

This recipe calls for yogurt, honey or maple syrup, vanilla extract, lemon juice, salt, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and chopped pecans. Just combine all of the ingredients into a pan and top with yogurt and berries. Refrigerate for two to three hours and then slice the bark.

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11 + 12. Fruit kabobs

This one is pretty self-explanatory. Just cut up your favorite fruit so that there are not any seeds or stems and then simply layer them onto a stick. That’s it! It will give you that perfect insta-worthy story and will make eating your fruit that much more fun! You can either eat the kabobs immediately after making them or keep them in your fridge for the perfect pick me up snack. If you are going to let them sit for a little, I suggest sprinkling a little bit of lemon juice over them to keep them cool and refreshed. They also make wonderful appetizers for any party or picnic!

Raspberry, orange, pineapple, kiwi, and grapes kabobs

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Strawberry, blueberry, and pineapple kabobs

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13 – 15. Fruit popsicles:

For a refreshing snack or dessert, simply blend fruit ingredients in a blender then pour it into a mold. Put the mold into your freezer and once they’re frozen, enjoy a healthy and delicious popsicle. Once again, you can find endless fruit popsicle recipes online or you can also play around with different ingredients until you find your favorites.

Roasted strawberries and cream popsicles

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Mango kiwi lemonade popsicles

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Ginger, hibiscus, and watermelon popsicles

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Thank you so much for taking the time to read this article. I hope you always remember to prioritize a healthy diet and to keep your diet fun and interesting. One way to do so is by shaking up your routine with one of these fruit recipes! Do you have any other fun and creative recipes for fruit? If so, let us know in the comments below!

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Annika Soderberg

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