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* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games seem to have these when there's a Chao-raising virtual pet minigame. In the original ''Sonic Adventure'', at least, you have [[RougeAnglesOfSatin cubicle]] fruit[[note]]misspelled that way in every game that names it, presumably intended to be "cubical"[[/note]], triangle fruit, and round fruit, and then more special ones like Chao fruit [[note]]shaped like Chao heads, increases a Chao's normal stats for every bite[[/note]], and heart fruit [[note]]pink and heart-shaped, makes a Chao fertile and interested in breeding with other Chao[[/note]]. There are also the mushrooms, which increase the hidden intelligence and luck stats and look suspiciously like Mario 1-Up mushrooms.

* The fire flower from the ''Videogame/SuperMarioBros'' series, which gives Mario the power to throw fireballs. ''Videogame/SuperMarioBros3'' has a leaf that grants Mario tanoonki powers and ''Videogame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' has an ice flower, which lets him freeze enemies.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', given its significant EarthDrift compared to the rest of the series, has numerous examples which are native to Vvardenfell and are cultivated by the Dunmer. For example, Comberries are bitter-sour berries used to make alcohol. Ash Yams are root vegetable similar to potatoes with a very distinctive odor. Saltrice is a white/gray stalk vegetable said to be very "tasty and nutritious". Muck is a fibrous slime harvested from fungus-like "muckspunge" plants that is mildly toxic, but if properly prepared, can be used to cure common diseases. Marshmerrow is a leafy green with modest healing properties. Trama Root is a bitter-tasting shrub root used to brew tea. Numerous other examples are found throughout the game as well.
** Everything found in the ''Shivering Isles'' expansion of ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'', with a large side order of FungusHumongous.
** While most of the fruits and vegetables in ''Videogame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' are quite close to their real-world counterpart (potatoes, wheat, cabbage, apples, and so on) there is also snowberries, which grow exclusively in extreme cold environments where few other edible plants can live. They are useful for crafting potions to resist different types of magic damage and are an ingredient in several pastries that the player can make.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, the fruit most people eat is a mutant plant called a mutfruit. The ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' DLC ''Point Lookout'' features the Punga fruit, which the local tribals cultivate, worship, and trade.
* in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' and its spinoffs there are the Banora White or Dumbapple fruit which looks like an apple but is purple and has no growing season.
* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series has Gysahl Greens, which Chocobos eat. In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', it's implied that humans can safely eat them, too. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' also has cactus fruit and an otherwise-undefined undefined "succulent fruit" as loot.
* Delicious Fruit, which, like everything else in ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'', try to kill you. [[MemeticMutation They're more like giant cherries, really]]. And people ''do'' apparently eat them, though they have to be harvested with sticks from a distance and boiled three times to remove the poison.
* The ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series has the star-shaped Paopu fruit, which supposedly links the destinies of those who share one.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'':
** A variety of wild forage, including various kinds of fruit, herbs, flowers, and mushrooms, provide buffs when cooked into food that can include instantly restoring stamina, making Link stronger or stealthier, or making him resistant to intense cold, burning heat, and electricity.
** There is one {{downplayed}} example. Acorns can be gathered and eaten as-is. They don't provide any unusual buffs, but real-life acorns are technically edible... if you first grind them to a pulp and then put the pulp in a sack in a stream of running water for a week to leach out their extremely bitter tannins.

* ''Westernanimation/TheSimpsons'' once managed to create tomato/tobacco hybrids. They looked like tomatoes, but where brown on the inside and highly addictive. Every plant save one was eaten by local wildlife and the last one ended up in the hands of the tobacco industry. They really did appreciate it though.

* ''{{Website/Neopets}}'' uses an assortment of them.

* The Member Berries of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' are grapes with [[UncannyValley human faces]] that continually talk about how great the past was, in order to create nostalgia in humans. They're annoying enough when giving paeans to ''Franchise/StarWars'' ''ad nauseam'', but they also praise [[NostalgiaAintLikeItUsedToBe all the things from the past that modern society judges unacceptable]].

* ''Manga/DragonBall'' has senzu beans, which can instantly satisfy the appetite of even the [[BigEater biggest eaters]] and will recover the stamina of those who eat them, as well as immediately heal all injuries bar amputation.

* ''Anime/YoSonGokuAndHisFriendsReturn'' introduces Chichi's grateful radish, a seed that can spout into hand-sized vegetables overnight but will root itself in the ground so hard regular humans can't even remove the smallest sprouts, and they can grow their roots to extend to the base of a mountain.

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' features different types of giant ManEatingPlant which produce fruit to lure in their prey; Team Touden actually manages to retrieve some of said fruit, which they then cook into a tart. A footnote mentions that different kinds of plants produce different fruit: the digestive types' are juicy and sweet, while the fertilizer types' are dense and full-flavored.

* Gingold, a rare tropical fruit from the Yucatan in Creator/DCComics. It was the basis for the formula that gave Ralph Dibny (the ComicBook/ElongatedMan) his stretching abilities.

* The page image comes from a one-panel gag in ''ComicBook/WhatIf'', showing a scenario in which the Fantastic Four's powers were instead given to bananas.

See also MagicMushroom, HealingHerb, and MultipurposeMonoculturedCrop. Compare FantasticLivestock.

* Every once in a while in most of the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' games, the player will see rare, alternative colored variations of fruits (except for coconuts) that sell more than their regular colored counterparts.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': the devil fruits that give eaters superpowers, with the side effect of removing the ability to swim.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/calbhach#pages Brother Calbach's Herbal]] from ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'' is a book devoted to them.

%%(ZCE)* Any ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series game that allows you to own an orchard.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' has nothing but these. The exploding blast razes, bombergranates and grenapes; the fizzy river juice fruit, which looks like a can of soda and can unleash a river of juice; flossberries, which look like a tangled ball if blue dental floss; the musical jingleberries: the li8st goes on and on.

* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' features Goblin Fruits, fruits that grow only in [[TheLostWoods the Hedge]]. The fruits range in appearance from "like typical fruit, only in slightly off colors" to "resembling everything from roughly-carved human heads to icicles to ovaries." Most of them have a beneficial effect on changeling metabolism, allowing them to heal damage, but a good number of the fruits have side effects, such as increased alertness, unceasing hunger, guaranteed fertility, or the temporary ability to understand any spoken language.

* ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'' has life fruits, which give the Sim who eats one an extra day of life, flame fruits, which aren't actually on fire but do give you a warm fuzzy feeling just by carrying it around, and plasma fruits, which [[VegetarianVampire re-fills a vampire Sim's Thirst motive]].

* ''Videogame/{{Littlewood}}'': About half of the vegetables and all fruits are completely fictional species that seem to serve the purpose of reminding the player that the game is taking place in a fantasy setting. Some of the fictional species even seem to be a thinly veiled counterpart to a real one, such as one that is basically broccoli, but blue.