Breakfast Fruit Salad

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This easy breakfast fruit salad is sweet, healthy, and is perfect for busy mornings! It’s super versatile – you can use any fruits you like, and it works great as a quick breakfast, a brunch side dish, an afternoon snack, or even a healthy dessert! It’s vegan, gluten free and kid friendly. The best part? It’s ready in less than 15 minutes!

Mornings just got sweeter with this delicious breakfast fruit salad recipe! Fresh blueberries, strawberries, oranges and grapes come together with a light honey-orange sauce to create a healthy easy recipe to start the day.

Thanks to the natural sweetness of the fruit, this low calorie fruit bowl tastes like dessert but has only about 3-4 grams of added sugar (and only about 120 calories) per serving!

This heart healthy fruit salad recipe is easy to customize based on whatever fruit is in season, and works great as a side dish or a main meal.

Serve it all on it’s own, or alongside dishes like this silken tofu scramble, baked oats without banana, avocado toast with honey, or these vegan coconut flour pancakes for a bigger breakfast spread! You can even use it as a topping for this healthy caramel ice cream for dessert!

👩🏽‍🍳 Why This Recipe Works

• Packed with fantastic flavors
• Super easy fruit salad recipe
• Vegan and gluten free
• Heart healthy, low fat, low calorie
• Great way to get a bunch of vitamins and nutrients in one meal
• Works as a healthy breakfast, great side dish, or healthy snack
• Simple to customize!
• Best breakfast fruit salad ever!

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🥘 Ingredients

This homemade fruit salad requires simple ingredients easily found at any grocery store! Here’s what you need:

• Fruit! We used fresh strawberries, blueberries, mandarin orange segments, and green grapes, but you can use any fruit you like. If you can’t find green seedless grapes, red grapes will also work in this breakfast fruit bowl.
• Honey, Orange Juice: This is your delicious fruit salad dressing. Any fruit juice will work in place of the orange juice if you want to change things up.
• Yogurt: Adds some protein and makes the yogurt dressing a lot creamier when combined with the honey and orange juice. You can use any type of yogurt – Greek yogurt, vegan yogurt, plain whole milk yogurt, etc.

🔪 Instructions

Prep Your Fruit: Cut all of the fruit you’re using (fresh berries, mandarin oranges, grapes) into bite sized pieces and place in a bowl.

Add Dressing To Mixed Fruit Bowl & Rest: Combine your cut fruit, honey and orange juice in a large bowl and mix thoroughly. Let your morning fruit salad sit for at least 1 hour in the fridge so that the flavors combine.

Serve This Morning Fruit Bowl: Add your favorite toppings before serving this low fat fruit salad!

💭 Expert Tips

• Use the freshest, best quality fruit available to you, ideally fruit that’s in season for this low calorie fruit salad.
• For best results, don’t skip the resting time. Let the mixed fruit sit in the fridge for an hour, to allow the natural sweetness to emerge and for it to chill. The longer the better!
• If you choose to add banana, add it right before serving. Many fruit salad recipes will have sliced banana as one of the ingredients. You can add banana to this low calorie fruit bowl, but I don’t recommend adding it until you’re just ready to serve the salad, as it will get mushy and slightly brown as it sits in the fridge.
• Cut your fruit into similar sized pieces. This will allow each of the fruits to soak up the dressing evenly, and makes it easier to eat.
• Feel free to double or triple this recipe to make this breakfast fruit salad for a crowd!

📖 Variations

• Choose Different Toppings: Try fresh herbs like fresh mint or basil, spices like a hint of cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice, a drizzle of vanilla extract or almond extract, lime juice, lemon juice, chia seeds, hemp seeds, flax seeds, or even some chopped nuts in this low calorie fruit salad recipe.
• Try Different Fruit: Thanks to the versatility of this salad, you can enjoy it any time of year! Here are the fruits I’d recommend using depending on which season you’re making this gluten free fruit salad:
  • Winter: Grapefruit, Oranges, Tangerines, Banana
  • Spring: Apricots, Avocado, Mango, Pineapple, Strawberries
  • Summer: Blackberries, Blueberries, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums, Raspberries, Kiwi
  • Fall: Apples, Cranberries, Figs, Grapes, Pears, Pomegranate Seeds
• Make It Sugar Free: To make a sugar free fruit salad for breakfast, you can remove all the added sugars by omitting the honey and orange juice, and switching it out for a sugar free maple syrup instead!
• Add Protein: If you don’t need this fruity breakfast to be vegan, you can add up to 1/2 cup of plain, unsweetened, low fat Greek yogurt as a topping to pair with this low cal fruit salad.
• Kid Friendly Fruit Salad Recipe: To make this vegan fruit salad for kids, there are a few things you can do
  • Cut the pieces of fruit to be really small and bite sized – perfect for small hands
  • Use your child’s favorite fruits! If you’re trying to introduce something new, add one new fruit among the ones they already know and love
  • Be sure to let the fruit marinate in the honey + orange juice for at least an hour (but longer is better!) to let the natural sweetness of the fruit become even more enhanced.
  • Serve it in a dish they love!

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