Where does the fruit list come from?

The built-in food list holds 263 authored names, including 53 filed under Fruit. Nothing is fetched while you draw. The names and their colour and form tags are held together in the list used by this page.

Can I draw only red fruit, or only berries?

Yes, and that pair of controls is what fruit has that the rest of the tool does not. Fruit is the only category whose entries carry tags, so two extra rows appear with it: colour, with 6 to choose from, and form, with 7. Red holds 14 fruit, orange 11, green 10, purple 8, yellow 7 and brown 3. Berry and tropical hold 11 each, then citrus 9, stone 7, pome 6, other 5 and melon 4. The two filters stack, so Red and Berry together leave Strawberry, Raspberry, Cranberry, Red grapes and Redcurrant. 26 of the 42 pairings have at least one fruit in them; the other 16, Brown and Berry among them, come back with a line naming both filters rather than an empty screen.

Is a tomato a fruit here, or a vegetable?

Tomato, Cucumber, Pumpkin and Avocado are filed under Vegetable in this list. Rhubarb is filed under Fruit. These are kitchen labels chosen for the page, not a botanical classification. Colour and form tags are also hand-assigned labels for narrowing a draw.

Can the same fruit come up twice?

Not inside one draw. The list is shuffled and names are taken without replacement, up to 50 at a time. A new round with the seed box empty can overlap the previous round. A typed seed repeats the same round when the other settings are unchanged. Ask for 50 brown fruit and the page returns Kiwi fruit, Date and Coconut, then says: "You asked for 50 and this list holds 3, so here are all 3."

Can I get the same fruit back later?

Use the same seed, count, list, colour and form to get the same fruit in the same order. The seeded draw is deterministic pseudorandom selection. Leave Seed empty to sample a seed from 0 through 9999 on each press, or type the displayed seed to repeat it. For fixed settings, automatic seeds can produce at most 10000 rounds, so not every possible set is equally likely. The seed alone does not restore the other settings, so note those as well.

Does it give calories, seasons or allergens?

No, and it does not pretend to. An entry holds four things: the name, the category it is filed under, the colour it shows when ripe and the form a kitchen groups it by. There are no calorie figures, no season tables, no ingredient lists and no allergen labels anywhere in the page, so anything you are going to cook is worth checking against the real ingredients in front of you. This is a page for deciding what to have, and it says what it holds rather than estimating what it does not.

Can I draw from my own list of fruit instead?

Yes. During this visit, paste one name per line or separate names with commas, up to 300 names of 60 characters each. Those words replace the built-in list and have no category, colour or form tags. Repeated names are kept once. This fruit page reopens on built-in fruit with both filters set to Any; its count and seed are remembered separately from the main food page. Opening it leaves the main page's remembered custom dishes intact.

Random Fruit Generator

Draw a random fruit from 53 names filed by kitchen convention. This page opens on the built-in Fruit list with colour and form set to Any, so remembered custom dishes or an empty filter pairing cannot replace the first fruit draw. Count and seed are remembered separately from the main food page when browser storage is available. Narrow the list to a red berry or a green citrus fruit, ask for up to 50 names without repeats, or type a seed to repeat a round with the same settings. If a filter leaves fewer names than requested, the tool returns all of them and states the count. During this visit you can paste your own list instead; reopening this fruit page returns to the built-in list. Names and hand-assigned tags are its whole output, with no recipes, nutrition or allergen information.

Fruit

Orange

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5 drawn: Orange, Pomelo, Dragon fruit, Plum, Mango

Common questions

Where does the fruit list come from?: The built-in food list holds 263 authored names, including 53 filed under Fruit. Nothing is fetched while you draw. The names and their colour and form tags are held together in the list used by this page.
Can I draw only red fruit, or only berries?: Yes, and that pair of controls is what fruit has that the rest of the tool does not. Fruit is the only category whose entries carry tags, so two extra rows appear with it: colour, with 6 to choose from, and form, with 7. Red holds 14 fruit, orange 11, green 10, purple 8, yellow 7 and brown 3. Berry and tropical hold 11 each, then citrus 9, stone 7, pome 6, other 5 and melon 4. The two filters stack, so Red and Berry together leave Strawberry, Raspberry, Cranberry, Red grapes and Redcurrant. 26 of the 42 pairings have at least one fruit in them; the other 16, Brown and Berry among them, come back with a line naming both filters rather than an empty screen.
Is a tomato a fruit here, or a vegetable?: Tomato, Cucumber, Pumpkin and Avocado are filed under Vegetable in this list. Rhubarb is filed under Fruit. These are kitchen labels chosen for the page, not a botanical classification. Colour and form tags are also hand-assigned labels for narrowing a draw.
Can the same fruit come up twice?: Not inside one draw. The list is shuffled and names are taken without replacement, up to 50 at a time. A new round with the seed box empty can overlap the previous round. A typed seed repeats the same round when the other settings are unchanged. Ask for 50 brown fruit and the page returns Kiwi fruit, Date and Coconut, then says: "You asked for 50 and this list holds 3, so here are all 3."
Can I get the same fruit back later?: Use the same seed, count, list, colour and form to get the same fruit in the same order. The seeded draw is deterministic pseudorandom selection. Leave Seed empty to sample a seed from 0 through 9999 on each press, or type the displayed seed to repeat it. For fixed settings, automatic seeds can produce at most 10000 rounds, so not every possible set is equally likely. The seed alone does not restore the other settings, so note those as well.
Does it give calories, seasons or allergens?: No, and it does not pretend to. An entry holds four things: the name, the category it is filed under, the colour it shows when ripe and the form a kitchen groups it by. There are no calorie figures, no season tables, no ingredient lists and no allergen labels anywhere in the page, so anything you are going to cook is worth checking against the real ingredients in front of you. This is a page for deciding what to have, and it says what it holds rather than estimating what it does not.
Can I draw from my own list of fruit instead?: Yes. During this visit, paste one name per line or separate names with commas, up to 300 names of 60 characters each. Those words replace the built-in list and have no category, colour or form tags. Repeated names are kept once. This fruit page reopens on built-in fruit with both filters set to Any; its count and seed are remembered separately from the main food page. Opening it leaves the main page's remembered custom dishes intact.

Pseudorandom selection from the list in play, with no repeats inside one draw. A seed repeats a round with the same list and settings; selection is not an exactly uniform draw over all possible sets. The built-in names were written for this page. It carries no recipes, no nutrition and no allergen information, so check anything you are cooking against the real ingredients.