Nature's Cereal
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Nature's Cereal
 Fresh berries in coconut water, eaten like cereal. Add the fruit to a medium-sized bowl: 1/2 cup blueberries , rinsed and drained 1/4 cup blackberries , rinsed and drained 1/4 cup raspberries , rinsed and drained 2 strawberries , rinsed and drainedand chopped 1/4 cup pomegranate seeds Add the ice cubes: 3-4 ice cubes Pour the coconut water over, stir: 1 cup coconut water . 100% pure Top with optional coconut chips and serve right away: 1/2 tbsp coconut chips The card also lists this, but its steps do not say when to use it: Optional: 1 tbsp granola |
Fresh Fruit Cup or Fruit Salad crumb: chilled fresh fruit in a bowl Joy of Cooking includes “Fresh Fruit Cup or Fruit Salad”. Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker wrote it (1997 All New edition). This book is the big American home cookbook. It covers baking, roasting, canning and everyday family meals across a century of editions. Differences: Popular internet nature's cereal is a bowl of mixed berries and pomegranate seeds. It covers them in coconut water and ice. People eat it with a spoon like cereal. The ancestor is Joy's fresh fruit cup, a bowl of cut fresh fruit served chilled. Both are chilled fresh fruit in a bowl. The internet twist is the coconut-water 'milk' and the idea of calling it cereal. |
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- Nature's Cereal
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- Reasonably similar, but will taste different
- Ancestor
- Fresh Fruit Cup or Fruit Salad
- Source
- Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer (1931)
- Differences
Popular internet nature's cereal is a bowl of mixed berries and pomegranate seeds. It covers them in coconut water and ice. People eat it with a spoon like cereal. The ancestor is Joy's fresh fruit cup, a bowl of cut fresh fruit served chilled. Both are chilled fresh fruit in a bowl. The internet twist is the coconut-water 'milk' and the idea of calling it cereal.
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- Online sources
- Life Made Sweeter · Nature's Cereal
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- Sep 2026
Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer (1931).
This book is the big American home cookbook. It covers baking, roasting, canning and everyday family meals across a century of editions. This site cites three editions. One is the classic 1975 Rombauer–Becker text (Plume 1997 printing). The others are the 1997 All New edition and the 2006 75th-anniversary edition. Each dish names its edition.