Editing Fruit

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[[File:Screenshot 2014-04-18 at 12.43.36 PM.png|thumb|right|A [[Sunseed Berry]], the first fruit found in {{p3}}.]]
'''Fruits''' are the reason for [[Alph]], [[Brittany]] and [[Charlie]]'s visit to [[PNF-404]] &ndash; by retrieving pieces of fruit scattered around the planet, and extracting the seeds, they are able to solve the hunger problem in their home planet, [[Koppai]].

Similarly to [[ship part]]s and [[treasure]]s in the previous two games, the collection of these items is necessary in order to complete the game, and they are normally found in specific locations, commonly accompanied by some sort of challenge which must be completed to access them. Some fruits are split into parts, where all parts must be recovered before the fruit is recognized. On top of working towards the goal of kick-starting cultivation on Koppai, the fruits are directly useful to the explorers, as they need to feed on their [[#Juice|juice]] every day.

In total, there are 66 fruits, belonging to 30 different types, with some of them having served as treasures in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'', bearing the same name. There is a grand total of 98 days' worth of juice, including the three bottles the explorers keep at the start as provisions. Day 99 can be played but the Koppaites will have no juice at the end. Interestingly, by highlighting day 1 on the [[Menu#Day selection|day selection menu]], it'll show that at the start of that day, the explorers had 7 bottles of juice. Given that at the end of the day, there are only three bottles on the inventory, this means that when the Drake crash-landed, four of the provisions got lost.

==Juice==
The collection of fruits serves more than just completing the overall goal: fruit collected is juiced at the end of the [[day]] to provide rations for the explorers. Juice is stored into bottles, and a bottle is only closed and made available if it's filled to the top. For this, the leaders will even mix juices of different fruits, if need be. After everything has been juiced, the crew grabs the oldest bottle and consumes it, regardless of how many people there are to feed on it. As such, the amount of juice the player has will determine the amount of days left they can explore. If a day ends and there are no more bottles of juice, the game is over, although the player is allowed to retry from a previous day.

Different fruits provide different amounts of juice, with the lowest possible being half a cup, the maximum being 3, and the average being 1.4. When two different juices are placed on the same bottle, the resulting juice's color will end up as a blend between the two. This is purely aesthetic and affects only the color seen on the bottle. To determine the final color, the game averages the hue and value components of both the existing and the new juice. This works fine for most cases, but in the case where the player collects a [[Juicy Gaggle]] and a [[Zest Bomb]] and their juices are combined, this results in the color #00FFE5, which is a vibrant blue. Although this color blend is correct, it does not look very natural; indeed, in the real world, combining raspberry and lime juice results in a grayish brown mix.

The bottles have some [[Koppaite text]] on them. On the glass, there is the text {{kt|A|J}} ("AJ"), which could mean "apple juice", since "OJ" is a common abbreviation for "orange juice". On the frame, the word {{kt|S|U|R|V|I|V|A|L}} ("survival") can be read.

<gallery>
Juice bottle screen.jpg|A completed bottle of juice, after the juicing sequence.
Juices.png|Some of the many colors of juice found in ''Pikmin 3''.
GameOver.jpeg|The Game Over screen that is shown when the crew runs out of juice.
Weird Juice.jpg|The result of mixing a Juicy Gaggle and a Zest Bomb.
</gallery>

==List==
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Icon
!Name
!{{tt|Juice|In number of bottles; value for when all parts of a fruit are collected}}
!{{tt|Total|Total number of times it can be collected}}
!Locations
!Real life fruit
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Astringent Clump|nosize=y}}
|[[Astringent Clump]]
|2.0
|2
|[[Garden of Hope]], [[Distant Tundra]]
|Grapefruit
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Blonde Impostor|nosize=y}}
|[[Blonde Impostor]]
|1.5
|1 (2 parts per fruit)
|[[Twilight River]]
|Gold kiwi
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Citrus Lump|nosize=y|v=FF}}
|[[Citrus Lump]]
|1.5
|4
|[[Garden of Hope]], [[Distant Tundra]], [[Twilight River]]
|Orange
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Crimson Banquet|nosize=y}}
|[[Crimson Banquet]]
|3.0
|1 (6 parts per fruit)
|[[Tropical Wilds]]
|Watermelon
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Crunchy Deluge|nosize=y}}
|[[Crunchy Deluge]]
|2.0
|1
|[[Twilight River]]
|Asian pear
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Cupid's Grenade|nosize=y|v=FF}}
|[[Cupid's Grenade]]
|0.5
|3
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Distant Tundra]]
|Cherry
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Dapper Blob|nosize=y}}
|[[Dapper Blob]]
|1.0
|3
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Distant Tundra]], [[Twilight River]]
|Mangosteen
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Dawn Pustules|nosize=y}}
|[[Dawn Pustules]]
|1.0
|2 (20 parts per fruit)
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Distant Tundra]]
|White grapes
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Delectable Bouquet|nosize=y}}
|[[Delectable Bouquet]]
|1.5
|2
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Twilight River]]
|Fig
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Disguised Delicacy|nosize=y|v=FF}}
|[[Disguised Delicacy]]
|1.5
|2 (2 parts per fruit)
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Distant Tundra]]
|Green kiwifruit
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Dusk Pustules|nosize=y}}
|[[Dusk Pustules]]
|1.0
|3 (20 parts per fruit)
|[[Garden of Hope]], [[Distant Tundra]], [[Twilight River]]
|Red grapes
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Face Wrinkler|nosize=y}}
|[[Face Wrinkler]]
|1.5
|3
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Garden of Hope]], [[Distant Tundra]]
|Lemon
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Fire-Breathing Feast|nosize=y}}
|[[Fire-Breathing Feast]]
|2.5
|1
|[[Garden of Hope]]
|Dragon fruit
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Heroine's Tear|nosize=y}}
|[[Heroine's Tear]]
|2.5
|1
|[[Distant Tundra]]
|Mango
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Insect Condo|nosize=y|v=FF}}
|[[Insect Condo]]
|2.0
|1
|[[Twilight River]]
|Apple
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Juicy Gaggle|nosize=y}}
|[[Juicy Gaggle]]
|0.5
|4
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Twilight River]]
|Raspberry
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Lesser Mock Bottom|nosize=y}}
|[[Lesser Mock Bottom]]
|1.0
|3
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Garden of Hope]], [[Twilight River]]
|Plum
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Mock Bottom|nosize=y}}
|[[Mock Bottom]]
|2.0
|1
|[[Tropical Wilds]]
|Peach
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Pocked Airhead|nosize=y}}
|[[Pocked Airhead]]
|2.5
|2
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Garden of Hope]]
|Dekopon
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Portable Sunset|nosize=y}}
|[[Portable Sunset]]
|2.0
|2
|[[Distant Tundra]], [[Twilight River]]
|Persimmon
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Scaly Custard|nosize=y}}
|[[Scaly Custard]]
|1.5
|2
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Garden of Hope]]
|Avocado
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Searing Acidshock|nosize=y}}
|[[Searing Acidshock]]
|1.0
|4
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Garden of Hope]], [[Twilight River]]
|Ume
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Seed Hive|nosize=y}}
|[[Seed Hive]]
|2.5
|1
|[[Twilight River]]
|Papaya
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Slapstick Crescent|nosize=y}}
|[[Slapstick Crescent]]
|2.5
|1
|[[Tropical Wilds]]
|Banana
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Stellar Extrusion|nosize=y}}
|[[Stellar Extrusion]]
|2.0
|3 (2 parts per fruit)
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Garden of Hope]], [[Distant Tundra]]
|Star fruit
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Sunseed Berry|nosize=y|v=FF}}
|[[Sunseed Berry]]
|1.0
|4
|[[Garden of Hope]], [[Distant Tundra]]
|Strawberry
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Tremendous Sniffer|nosize=y}}
|[[Tremendous Sniffer]]
|2.0
|1
|[[Twilight River]]
|Pear
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Velvety Dreamdrop|nosize=y}}
|[[Velvety Dreamdrop]]
|1.0
|4
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Garden of Hope]], [[Distant Tundra]],
|Loquat
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Wayward Moon|nosize=y}}
|[[Wayward Moon]]
|3.0
|1
|[[Garden of Hope]]
|Cantaloupe
|-
|style="text-align:center"|{{icon|Zest Bomb|nosize=y}}
|[[Zest Bomb]]
|1.5
|3
|[[Tropical Wilds]], [[Garden of Hope]], [[Distant Tundra]]
|Lime
|}

In addition, the following two special types of fruits can be found in [[Mission Mode]] and [[Bingo Battle]]:
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Icon
!Name
|-
|style="text-align:center"|[[File:Golden Sunseed icon.png|link=Golden Sunseed]]
|[[Golden Sunseed]]
|-
|style="text-align:center"|[[File:Golden Grenade icon.png|link=Golden Grenade]]
|[[Golden Grenade]]
|}

==Fruit File==
[[File:Pikmin 3 Fruit File.jpg|thumb|right|A screenshot of the completed Fruit File.]]

{{main|KopPad#Fruit File|t1=KopPad}}
The Fruit File is one of the options available on the [[KopPad]]. It provides information on all collected pieces of fruit, and by tapping on a fruit, the player can read [[Brittany's Notes]] on it.

==Treasures as fruits==
In ''[[Pikmin 2]]'', some [[treasure]]s are actually fruits. They do not serve the same purpose as the collectibles in ''Pikmin 3'', but are fruits nevertheless:

*{{icon|Cupid's Grenade|y|v=TH}}: same as the ''Pikmin 3'' fruit.
*{{icon|Sunseed Berry|y|v=TH}}: same as the ''Pikmin 3'' fruit.
*{{icon|Combustion Berry|y}}: a larger strawberry.
*{{icon|Seed of Greed|y}}: a chestnut; botanically a fruit.
*{{icon|Disguised Delicacy|y|v=TH}}: same as the ''Pikmin 3'' fruit.
*{{icon|Insect Condo|y|v=TH}}: same as the ''Pikmin 3'' fruit.
*{{icon|Citrus Lump|y|v=TH}}: same as the ''Pikmin 3'' fruit.
*{{icon|Love Nugget|y}}: a tomato; tomatoes are considered vegetables for culinary purposes, but are botanically fruits.
*{{icon|Infernal Vegetable|y}}: a bell pepper; likewise, bell peppers are botanically fruits.

==Piktamin U==
"Piktamin U" is a fictional vitamin that the [[Koppai]]tes claim is in some fruits. Its name is a pun on "vitamin" with "[[Pikmin family|Pik]]" at the start, and the "U" is the vitamin's name, is in reference to the [[Wii U]]. Oddly, even the [[Golden Sunseed]], which seems to be more of a [[treasure]] and less of a food, is said to have a lot of Piktamin U, in a [[Mission Mode]] tip.{{cite quote|Golden Sunseeds are packed with Piktamin U! One of these gives you {{pokos|200}}!|[[Loading]] screen tip|Mission Mode}}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Five Fruit.jpg|At the end of the day, Brittany recaps and juices the collected fruits, and analyzes new ones.
zlCfzRFwfwEvkAcSmg.jpeg|Some more fruit. In this image, all pieces of fruit are of undiscovered types.
Lots of fruit!.jpg|Some more fruit with 2 new types.
Every_Tropical_Wilds_Fruit.jpeg|Every fruit from the [[Tropical Wilds]].
</gallery>

==Trivia==
*According to [[Brittany]]'s notes, [[Alph]] is allergic to both the [[Heroine's Tear]] and the [[Scaly Custard]].
*Including [[Mission Mode]] and [[Bingo Battle]], the Cupid's Grenade is the most common normal fruit in ''[[Pikmin 3]]'', appearing 20 times. The most common golden fruit is the [[Golden Grenade]], appearing 23 times.
*All the fruits in ''Pikmin 3'' appear to be fresh and undamaged, which is odd, considering some of them are buried, underwater, not growing on any plant (except a few), and even ingested by creatures.
*The Fruit Files for [[Dawn Pustules]] and [[Dusk Pustules]] state 20 Pikmin are needed to carry them. While there are 20 grapes to carry in each, just one Pikmin can handle the entire task by carrying one at a time.

==See also==
*[[Treasure]]
*[[Ship part]]
*[[Plant]]
*[[Treasure Hoard]]

==References==
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