Fruit

Fruits are the reason for Alph, Brittany and Charlie's visit to PNF-404 – 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 parts and treasures 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. Collecting part of the fruit will still warrant an amount of juice, small as it may be. At the end of the day, any fruits retrieved will be analyzed, their seeds will be extracted, and the remainder will be converted into juice to serve as food supply for the crew, with one bottle of juice being consumed each day. The amount of juice the player has will hence determine the amount of days left they can explore. If a bottle is left half-full, new juice will be added into the same bottle, which will result in the colors of the two blending in. The oldest bottles are drank first.

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 bring as provisions. Day 99 can be played but the characters will have no juice at the end, and defeating the final boss is the only way to make progress on this day.

List

Icon	Name	Juice	Total	Locations	Real life fruit
	Astringent Clump	2.0	2	Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra	Grapefruit
	Blonde Impostor	1.5	1 (2 parts per fruit)	Twilight River	Gold kiwi
	Citrus Lump	1.5	4	Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra, Twilight River	Orange
	Crimson Banquet	3.0	1 (6 parts per fruit)	Tropical Wilds	Watermelon
	Crunchy Deluge	2.0	1	Twilight River	Asian pear
	Cupid's Grenade	0.5	3	Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra	Cherry
	Dapper Blob	1.0	3	Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra, Twilight River	Mangosteen
	Dawn Pustules	1.0	2 (20 parts per fruit)	Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra	White grapes
	Delectable Bouquet	1.5	2	Tropical Wilds, Twilight River	Fig
	Disguised Delicacy	1.5	2 (2 parts per fruit)	Tropical Wilds, Distant Tundra	Green kiwifruit
	Dusk Pustules	1.0	3 (20 parts per fruit)	Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra, Twilight River	Red grapes
	Face Wrinkler	1.5	3	Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra	Lemon
	Fire-Breathing Feast	2.5	1	Garden of Hope	Dragon fruit
	Heroine's Tear	2.5	1	Distant Tundra	Mango
	Insect Condo	2.0	1	Twilight River	Apple
	Juicy Gaggle	0.5	4	Tropical Wilds, Twilight River	Raspberry
	Lesser Mock Bottom	1.0	3	Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Twilight River	Plum
	Mock Bottom	2.0	1	Tropical Wilds	Peach
	Pocked Airhead	2.5	2	Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope	Tangelo
	Portable Sunset	2.0	2	Distant Tundra, Twilight River	Persimmon
	Scaly Custard	1.5	2	Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope	Avocado
	Searing Acidshock	1.0	4	Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Twilight River	Ume
	Seed Hive	2.5	1	Twilight River	Papaya
	Slapstick Crescent	2.5	1	Tropical Wilds	Banana
	Stellar Extrusion	2.0	3 (2 parts per fruit)	Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra	Star fruit
	Sunseed Berry	1.0	4	Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra	Strawberry
	Tremendous Sniffer	2.0	1	Twilight River	Pear
	Velvety Dreamdrop	1.0	4	Tropical Wilds, Garden of Hope, Distant Tundra,	Loquat
	Wayward Moon	3.0	1	Garden of Hope	Melon
	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:

Icon	Name
	Golden Sunseed
	Golden Grenade

Fruit File

A screenshot of the completed Fruit File.

Main article: 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 treasures are actually fruits. They do not serve the same purpose as the collectibles in Pikmin 3, but are fruits nevertheless:

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

Piktamin U

"Piktamin U" is a fictional vitamin that the Koppaites claim is in some fruits. Its name is a pun on "vitamin" with "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.

Gallery

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  At the end of the day, Brittany recaps and juices the collected fruits, and analyzes new ones.

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  Some more fruit. In this image, all pieces of fruit are of undiscovered types.

Trivia

• According to Brittany's notes, Alph is allergic to both the Heroine's Tear and the Scaly Custard.
• Out of all fruit types, the following are also treasures in Pikmin 2: Citrus Lump, Cupid's Grenade, Disguised Delicacy, Insect Condo and Sunseed Berry.
• 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.

See also

• Treasure
• Ship part
• Plant
• Treasure Hoard