Fruit Riddles With Answers
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Quick answer: This page offers 42 fruit riddles with answers for children, teachers and parents. The easy riddles describe familiar fruits by colour, shape and taste, the middle sets cover dried, tropical and unusual fruits, and the hard set combines botanical facts with shopping and counting puzzles. Everything is clean, family friendly and checked for accuracy.
Easy Fruit Riddles
I am round and crunchy, red or green, and they say one a day keeps the doctor away. What am I?
An apple
I am yellow and curved, I wear a peel, and monkeys love me. What am I?
A banana
I am round, I am juicy, and I share my name with a colour. What am I?
An orange
I grow in bunches on a vine, and I can be green, red or purple. What am I?
Grapes
I have a spiky crown and a rough skin, and my flesh is sweet and yellow. What am I?
A pineapple
I have a hairy brown shell, and inside there is white flesh and a sweet watery milk. What am I?
A coconut
I am small and red with a long stem and one hard stone, and I sit on top of a sundae. What am I?
A cherry
I am shaped like a teardrop, with a thin neck and a rounded base. I am green or yellow and juicy. What am I?
A pear
I have fuzzy skin and a big hard stone in the middle, and my flesh is soft and golden. What am I?
A peach
I am brown and fuzzy on the outside, but inside I am bright green with tiny black seeds. What am I?
A kiwi
I am yellow and sour, and my juice makes your face scrunch up. What am I?
A lemon
I am a tiny blue berry, and I am often baked into muffins. What am I?
A blueberry
Trickier Fruit Riddles
I used to be a grape, but the sun dried me out and made me wrinkly. What am I?
A raisin
I am a dried plum, and I am famous as a snack that helps digestion. What am I?
A prune
I have a rough green skin, a big round stone, and my creamy flesh is mashed to make guacamole. What am I?
An avocado
I am red and juicy, grown from a vine, and I am often called a vegetable, but I am a fruit because I have seeds inside. What am I?
A tomato
I have a hard red skin, and inside are hundreds of tiny seeds, each coated in juicy red jelly. What am I?
A pomegranate
I am called the king of fruits in many hot countries, and I have a large flat stone in the middle. What am I?
A mango
I am a tart red berry, and I am cooked into a sauce for the holiday dinner. What am I?
A cranberry
I am a spiky tropical fruit with a smell so strong that some trains and hotels do not allow me. What am I?
A durian
I am a sweet brown fruit from a palm tree, and I am also what two people go on. What am I?
A date
Sailors once ate me to stay healthy on long voyages, and they were nicknamed after my name. What am I?
A lime
I am big and yellow-pink and I grow in clusters like grapes, but I am much larger and more sour. What am I?
A grapefruit
I am red and made of lots of tiny round pieces, and when you pick me I come away from my stem as a hollow cup. What am I?
A raspberry
Hard Fruit Riddles
Botanically I am a berry, but a strawberry is not. I am yellow, curved and peeled. What am I?
A banana
I float in water because about a quarter of me is air. What am I?
An apple
My seeds grow on the outside of my skin, not inside. What am I?
A strawberry
A fruit stand has 24 apples and 18 pears. A customer buys a third of the apples and half of the pears. How many pieces of fruit are left?
25. 8 apples are bought, leaving 16, and 9 pears are bought, leaving 9; 16 + 9 = 25
Bananas come in bunches of 6. A teacher buys 7 bunches and gives 3 bananas to each child. How many children get bananas?
14, because 7 x 6 = 42 and 42 / 3 = 14
An apple costs 40 cents and an orange costs 60 cents. Sam buys 3 apples and 2 oranges and pays with a 5 dollar note. How much change does he get?
2 dollars 60 cents. The apples cost 1.20, the oranges cost 1.20, the total is 2.40, and 5.00 - 2.40 = 2.60
There are six apples on a table, and you take away four. How many apples do you have?
4, because you are the one who took them
Two fruits are made from exactly the same letters. One is sour and yellow, and the other is sweet and green or orange inside. What are they?
Lemon and melon
I am a small green or black fruit that is pressed to make oil and also sliced onto pizza. What am I?
An olive
An apple tree has 3 branches, each branch has 3 twigs, and each twig has 3 apples. How many apples are on the tree?
27, because 3 x 3 x 3 = 27
Quick-Fire Fruit Riddles
The skin you pull off a banana. What is it?
A peel
The middle of an apple that you throw away. What is it?
The core
A small seed inside an orange. What is it?
A pip
The hard centre of a peach or plum. What is it?
A stone
What you get when you squeeze an orange. What is it?
Juice
Fruit boiled with sugar and spread on toast. What is it?
Jam
A field of fruit trees in neat rows. What is it?
An orchard
Fruit blended with milk or yoghurt into a thick drink. What is it?
A smoothie
How to Use These Fruit Riddles
Fruit riddles work at snack time, in the supermarket or in a healthy eating lesson. Show a real fruit after each answer, and let children touch, smell and taste it. The easy riddles use colour and shape, which helps early readers.
The hard set suits older pupils because it mixes facts with shopping maths. Ask children to explain the working for each money puzzle and to say which fact in the riddle they trusted most.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a good fruit riddle for kids?
Try 'I am yellow and curved, I wear a peel, and monkeys love me.' The answer is a banana. Riddles that use colour, shape and a familiar habit work best for younger children.
Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
Botanically a tomato is a fruit, because it grows from a flower and holds seeds. In the kitchen people treat it as a vegetable because it tastes savoury rather than sweet.
Why does an apple float in water?
About a quarter of an apple is air trapped between its cells, which makes it less dense than water. That is why apples bob on the surface at a party game.
Which fruit has its seeds on the outside?
The strawberry. The tiny yellow specks on its surface are each a separate fruit containing a seed, which makes it an unusual fruit that wears its seeds on the outside.
