Fruit is healthy, delicious, and makes a great addition to any meal. This is true whether you’re dining alone, fixing a meal for your family, or preparing a dish to bring to a family gathering or pot-luck lunch at the office. There are lots of options for different fruit salads, but this recipe for fresh fruit salad with honey and lime is quick, easy, and colorful, and is one I make most frequently at home. (It also lasts well if you want to make a larger batch on Sunday for your weekly meal prep for quick breakfasts, snacks, or to have along with any meal of the day.)

Fruit Salad with Honey and Lime

What you’ll need for this recipe

• Blueberries – for this recipe, make sure they’re fresh! You really want them to “pop” in your mouth with sweet juiciness. Their color is beautiful, and they’re chock full of antioxidants.
• Strawberries – again, get them as fresh as you can! Homegrown, hand-picked from a local strawberry patch, purchased from your local farmer’s market or grocery store when at the height of their growing season: however you get them, they’re juicy redness will perfectly complement the other fruits in this super simple, healthy recipe.
• Cantaloupe – seeded and cubed, these juicy orange bits of deliciousness will taste great with the strawberries and blueberries, and their flavors complement each other beautifully.
• Almonds – raw for optimum healthiness and sliced thin, these nuts add just a touch of crunch to an already perfect fruit salad cup.
• Coconut – try to find this shredded goodness unsweetened, because the fresh fruit in this salad is sweet and delicious without the extra added sugar!
• Lime Juice – if you can find it, go for the “not from concentrate” kind for best flavor
• Honey – locally sourced is ideal, for optimum health benefits, but try to go for “raw” and “unfiltered” for even more flavor and healthiness
• Measuring Cups
• Knife
• Cutting board
• Pretty bowls for serving

How to make

1. Wash cantaloupe rind with dish soap and water. RINSE WELL!
   (Although you’ll be removing the rind, washing it with soap and water, first, ensures you won’t contaminate the fruit inside when you cut through the cantaloupe with your knife.)
2. Rinse fresh blueberries and strawberries.
3. Prepare fruit:
   • Cantaloupe: slice melon in half. Cut into two halves. Then, scooping out the seeds from each half with a spoon. Cut each half into four parts; you’ll have eight pieces, altogether. Wrap 7 parts in plastic and refrigerate for another recipe, or for snacking during the week. For the remaining piece of cantaloupe, carefully remove rind with a knife and cut into bite-sized cubes. Set aside.
   • Strawberries: carefully slice off green tops, then slice each berry into quarters. Set aside.
   • Blueberries: remove any bits of blueberry stems that might be remaining on berries.
4. Combine washed and prepared fruit in a serving bowl and set aside.
5. For honey-lime dressing: combine honey and lime in a small bowl and stir briskly until combined
6. Add honey-lime dressing to fruit bowl and toss everything together to mix and coat well.
7. Divide coated fruit into three serving bowls. Top each with a sprinkling of unsweetened coconut and sliced almonds.

Serving Suggestions

These easy fruit salad cups can be enjoyed alone, or paired with a light sandwich, or as a side to any meal.

Ways to spice this recipe up!

Feel free to experiment with the toppings for this fruit salad! In place of the unsweetened coconut and almond slivers, consider ground walnuts, homemade strawberry sauce, or a dollup of vanilla yogurt. Or try this fresh fruit combination without the honey lime dressing, and without the other toppings: it’s still delicious!

Tips

For this fruit salad with honey and lime, the freshest fruit makes for the most delicious outcome!

Frequently Asked Questions

Is fruit salad good for weight loss?

Many factors go into what food is a good “weight loss” food. (For example, if you are following a keto diet, fresh fruit recipes might not be as good a fit for you. But if you’re focusing on nutrients, lower-calorie options, or if you’re just trying to incorporate more vegetarian or vegan meals to your diet, then this fresh fruit treat is will be a great meal option!

How do you keep fruit salad from turning brown?

Tossing fruit in a little lemon or lime juice definitely helps to keep the fruit from turning brown. However, cantaloupe, strawberries, and blueberries don’t brown quickly when cut, so you don’t need to worry about that with this recipe.

What are the best fruit combinations?

The types of fruits that go well together is a matter of taste. I try to combine at least one sweeter fruit–in the case of this recipe, nice juicy cantaloupe–with a few that are more tart, such as berries, to balance out the sweetness in the fruit salad.

What fruits can you not put in a fruit salad?

The only fruits you cannot put into a fruit salad are ones that you, or anyone you’re serving, may be allergic to. Fresh fruits, well cleaned, are best!

What goes good on top of fruit?

When considering the best toppings for fruit, the sky’s the limit! Try some of these tasty options:

• yogurt, whipped cream, or a nut- or coconut-based whipped topping
• a drizzle of honey, molasses, or natural maple syrup
• walnuts, pecans, pistachios, cashews, or hazelnuts
• mini dark chocolate chips
• a dusting of cacao or Ceylon cinnamon
• homemade fruit sauces made from real fruit, like strawberry fruit sauce
• all-natural mini chips

What fruit goes with honey?

Depending on your personal taste, you can try any fruit with a drizzle of tasty honey. But go easy! Honey has a strong flavor, and little goes a long way!

If you loved this recipe, try these next time!

• Pasta Salad
• Special Occasion Rice Pudding
• Asian Chicken Salad

Fruit Salad with Honey and Lime

Nindo Mom

This low-calorie snack is easy to make, refreshing, and healthy, perfect for the summer!

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Total Time 5 minutes mins

Course Appetizer, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 5 people

Equipment

• 1 measuring cup
• 1 Knife
• 1 Cutting board
• Pretty bowls for serving

Ingredients

  

• 1 1/2 cup blueberries for this recipe, make sure they’re fresh! You really want them to “pop” in your mouth with sweet juiciness. Their color is beautiful, and they’re chock full of antioxidants.
• 1 1/2 cup strawberries get them as fresh as you can! Homegrown, hand-picked from a local strawberry patch, purchased from your local farmer’s market or grocery store when at the height of their growing season: however you get them, they’re juicy redness will perfectly complement the other fruits in this super simple, healthy recipe.
• 1 1/2 cup cantaloupe seeded and cubed, these juicy orange bits of deliciousness will taste great with the strawberries and blueberries, and their flavors complement each other beautifully.
• 1 1/2 cup almonds raw for optimum healthiness and sliced thin, these nuts add just a touch of crunch to an already perfect fruit salad cup.
• 1 1/2 cup coconut try to find this shredded goodness unsweetened, because the fresh fruit in this salad is sweet and delicious without the extra added sugar!
• 2 tbsp lime juice if you can find it, go for the “not from concentrate” kind for best flavor
• 2 tbsp honey locally sourced is ideal, for optimum health benefits, but try to go for “raw” and “unfiltered” for even more flavor and healthiness

Instructions

 

• Wash cantaloupe rind with dish soap and water. RINSE WELL! (Although you’ll be removing the rind, washing it with soap and water, first, ensures you won’t contaminate the fruit inside when you cut through the cantaloupe with your knife.)
• Rinse fresh blueberries and strawberries.

Prepare fruit:

• Cantaloupe: slice melon in half. Cut into two halves. Then, scooping out the seeds from each half with a spoon. Cut each half into four parts; you’ll have eight pieces, altogether. Wrap 7 parts in plastic and refrigerate for another recipe, or for snacking during the week. For the remaining piece of cantaloupe, carefully remove rind with a knife and cut into bite-sized cubes. Set aside.
• Strawberries: carefully slice off green tops, then slice each berry into quarters. Set aside.
• Blueberries: remove any bits of blueberry stems that might be remaining on berries.

Assemble:

• Combine washed and prepared fruit in a serving bowl and set aside.
• For honey-lime dressing: combine honey and lime in a small bowl and stir briskly until combined
• Add honey-lime dressing to fruit bowl and toss everything together to mix and coat well.
• Divide coated fruit into three serving bowls. Top each with a sprinkling of unsweetened coconut and sliced almonds.
• Enjoy!

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