Fruit salad

11/01/2023

11/01/2023

11/01/2023

11/01/2023

Both William Vere Cruess of the University of California, Berkeley and Herbert Gray of the Barron-Gray Packing Company of San Jose, California have been credited with the invention of fruit cocktails.[7][8] Barron–Gray was the first company to sell fruit cocktail commercially, beginning in 1930, and California Packing Corporation began selling it under its Del Monte brand a few years later.[9]

Canned fruit cocktails and canned fruit salad are similar, but fruit salad contains larger fruit while fruit cocktail is diced.[10] Commercially, the fruit used was healthy but cosmetically damaged, such as a peach or pear that was bruised on one side.[9] The bruised parts would be cut away and discarded, and the rest would be diced into small pieces.[9]