✔ Updated · 54 fruits, sorted by category
Fruits that start with E include elderberries, etrogs, egg fruit, elephant apples, emblic (amla) and Eureka lemons.
E is a short letter for fruit, so this list rounds up every real E fruit we could verify, from wild berries and tropical rarities to well-known apple, peach, plum, cherry, grape and melon varieties. Each entry says what the fruit tastes like and where it grows, and a quick A-to-Z list at the end is handy for alphabet games and quizzes.
Fruits that start with E, from everyday favorites to rare finds. The most popular:
Common Fruits That Start With E
Apples, pears and grapes you can find at orchards, farmers markets and grocery stores. I grab Empire apples whenever I see them.
Empire Apple
A crisp, sweet-tart red apple with creamy white flesh, bred at Cornell in New York in 1966 from McIntosh and Red Delicious.
Envy Apple
A very sweet, crunchy apple with slow-browning white flesh, bred in New Zealand from Braeburn and Royal Gala and now grown worldwide.
Elstar Apple
A honeyed, tangy Dutch apple bred from Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie, widely grown across the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium.
Enterprise Apple
A disease-resistant American apple with deep red skin and tart, spicy flesh that keeps its crunch for months in storage.
Egremont Russet
A classic English russet apple with rough golden-brown skin and dry, nutty, almost pear-like flesh, often eaten with cheese.
Ellison's Orange
An old English apple, a seedling of Cox's Orange Pippin, with striped skin and a sweet flavor that turns aniseed-like when ripe.
Esopus Spitzenburg
A historic Hudson Valley, New York apple with brick-red skin and rich, spicy, sweet-tart flesh that improves with a few weeks of storage.
European Pear
The classic pear grown across Europe and North America, including Bartlett and Bosc, with buttery, juicy, sweet flesh when ripe.
Emperor Grape
A late-season red table grape from California with large, firm berries, thick skin and a mild, sweet flavor.
Einset Seedless Grape
A red seedless grape bred in Geneva, New York, with crisp berries and a sweet, fruity flavor often compared to strawberry.
Edelweiss Grape
A cold-hardy white grape from Minnesota with juicy, sweet berries and the musky, foxy flavor typical of American grapes.
Elvira Grape
A pale green American grape from Missouri with sweet, soft, slightly foxy berries, grown mainly for white wine and juice.
Berries That Start With E
Wild and cultivated berries, including some well-known strawberry and blueberry varieties. I make elderberry syrup every fall, always cooking the berries first, because raw elderberries should never be eaten.
Elderberry
Small, dark purple berries of the elder shrub, found across Europe and North America, with a tart, earthy taste once cooked into syrups and jams.
Evergreen Huckleberry
Shiny blue-black berries from the Pacific coast of North America with a sweet, slightly musky flavor, picked in fall for jams and pies.
European Gooseberry
Green, red or yellow berries grown across Europe, with a sharp, sour taste when young and a sweet, grape-like flavor when fully ripe.
European Cranberrybush
Bright red, very sour berries of a viburnum native to Europe and Asia, cooked into jelly and drinks, especially in Ukraine and Russia.
Earliglow Strawberry
An early-season strawberry released by the USDA in Maryland in 1975, with small, deep red berries and an excellent sweet flavor.
Earliblue Blueberry
One of the first highbush blueberries to ripen each summer, a USDA variety with large, light blue, mild and sweet berries.
Elliott Blueberry
A late-ripening highbush blueberry developed by the USDA, with firm, light blue berries that taste tart until fully ripe.
Emerald Blueberry
A southern highbush blueberry from the University of Florida with very large, sweet, mildly tangy berries suited to warm climates.
Citrus That Start With E
Lemons, mandarins and citrus hybrids that start with E. A Eureka lemon is the one I keep on my counter.
Eureka Lemon
One of the most common supermarket lemons, first grown in California in the 1850s, with very tart, juicy flesh and few seeds.
Etrog
A large, fragrant yellow citron grown around the Mediterranean, with thick, perfumed rind, little juice and a mildly sour taste, used at Sukkot.
Ellendale Mandarin
A large, juicy tangor from Queensland, Australia, with deep orange, easy-peel skin and a rich, sweet flavor.
Encore Mandarin
A late-season mandarin bred in California, with speckled orange skin and sweet, tart, very flavorful segments ripening in spring.
Emperor Mandarin
A popular Australian mandarin with loose, easy-peel skin and juicy, mildly sweet segments, harvested in winter.
Eustis Limequat
A small Florida cross of Key lime and kumquat, with sour, lime-like juice and an edible, sweet skin.
Tropical Fruits That Start With E
Fruits from the tropics, including several mango and banana varieties.
Egg Fruit
Also called canistel, a fruit from southern Mexico and Central America with dry, yellow, sweet flesh like a cooked egg yolk or sweet potato.
Elephant Apple
The large, green fruit of the Dillenia indica tree from India and Southeast Asia, very sour and cooked into curries, chutneys and pickles.
Emblic
Better known as amla or Indian gooseberry, a pale green fruit from India with an intensely sour, bitter and astringent taste.
Early Gold Mango
An early-season Florida mango with yellow-orange skin and sweet, juicy, nearly fiberless flesh with a mild citrus note.
Edward Mango
A Florida mango selected from a Haden and Carabao cross, prized for its rich, sweet, spicy flavor and smooth, fiberless flesh.
Ewais Mango
A small, yellow Egyptian mango with very sweet, aromatic, honeyed flesh, one of the most popular summer fruits in Egypt.
Elakki Banana
A small, thin-skinned banana from South India with a very sweet, slightly tangy flavor and a creamy texture.
Entawak
A rare Bornean relative of jackfruit with bright orange, sweet flesh that tastes like pumpkin and caramel; its seeds are roasted and eaten.
Engkala
A small pink fruit from Borneo that turns soft and white when ripe, with a mild, buttery taste often compared to avocado.
Stone Fruits That Start With E
Peaches, plums, gages and cherries with a single hard pit.
Elberta Peach
A famous yellow freestone peach bred in Georgia in the 1870s, with juicy, sweet flesh, long a favorite for canning and cobblers.
European Plum
The plum species behind prunes and damsons, grown across Europe and North America, with dense, sweet flesh that dries well.
Elephant Heart Plum
A large Japanese-type plum introduced by Luther Burbank in California, with mottled dark skin and juicy, blood-red, sweet flesh.
Emerald Beaut Plum
A late California plum with green-yellow skin and crisp, very sweet flesh that stays firm on the tree for weeks.
Early Rivers Plum
An early English plum from the Rivers nursery in Hertfordshire, with small blue-black fruits and juicy, sweet-tart flesh.
Early Transparent Gage
An English gage bred by Thomas Rivers in the 1860s, with apricot-yellow skin and syrupy, honey-sweet flesh.
Early Richmond Cherry
An old sour cherry variety grown in the US and Europe, with bright red, tart, juicy fruit that is ideal for pies and preserves.
Emperor Francis Cherry
A sweet cherry from Europe, also called Kaiser Franz, with red-blushed yellow skin and firm, juicy, very sweet flesh.
Melons That Start With E
Heirloom and modern melons that start with E.
Emerald Gem Melon
A 19th-century American heirloom muskmelon with green-ribbed skin and salmon-orange flesh that is very sweet, soft and aromatic.
Eel River Melon
An heirloom cantaloupe from the Eel River Valley of California, with deep orange flesh and a rich, sweet, spicy flavor.
Early Hanover Melon
A small Virginia heirloom muskmelon from the 1890s, with green, juicy, honey-sweet flesh that ripens early in summer.
Edisto Melon
A disease-resistant cantaloupe developed in South Carolina for humid Southern summers, with thick, sweet, orange flesh.
Egusi Melon
A West African melon grown for its seeds rather than its bitter, pale flesh; the ground seeds thicken Nigerian egusi soup.
Rare & Exotic Fruits That Start With E
Wild and bush fruits that are hard to find outside the places they grow.
Emu Apple
Also called muntries, small green-and-red berries from southern Australia with a spicy, apple-like flavor, eaten fresh or baked into pies.
Emu Berry
A small fleshy fruit of a Western Australian podocarp shrub, with a mild, sweet, slightly resinous taste, traditionally eaten by Aboriginal people.
Elands Sour Fig
The fruit of a South African succulent ice plant, with sticky, sour-sweet, salty pulp that is eaten fresh or made into jam.
Eastern Prickly Pear
The red fruit of a cactus native to the eastern United States, with sweet, juicy flesh like watermelon and tiny spines to remove first.
Botanical Fruits Eaten as Vegetables That Start With E
Fruits in the botanical sense that are cooked and served as vegetables.
Eggplant
A glossy purple nightshade first grown in South and Southeast Asia; botanically a berry, it tastes mild and turns silky when cooked.
Early Girl Tomato
A popular American hybrid tomato that ripens weeks early, giving medium red fruits with a balanced, sweet and tangy flavor.
Did You Know?
- Eggplant is botanically a berry and belongs to the nightshade family, alongside tomatoes, potatoes and peppers.
- Raw elderberries, along with the stems and leaves of the elder plant, contain compounds that can cause stomach upset, which is why the berries are always cooked into syrups, jams and pies.
- The Esopus Spitzenburg apple, first found in the Hudson Valley of New York in the 1700s, was grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
- The Eustis limequat was created in Florida in 1909 by crossing a Key lime with a kumquat, and it can be eaten whole, skin and all.
Quick List: All 54 Fruits That Start With E
Handy for alphabet games, quizzes and Scattergories. The full list, A to Z:
Earliblue Blueberry, Earliglow Strawberry, Early Girl Tomato, Early Gold Mango, Early Hanover Melon, Early Richmond Cherry, Early Rivers Plum, Early Transparent Gage, Eastern Prickly Pear, Edelweiss Grape, Edisto Melon, Edward Mango, Eel River Melon, Egg Fruit, Eggplant, Egremont Russet, Egusi Melon, Einset Seedless Grape, Elakki Banana, Elands Sour Fig, Elberta Peach, Elderberry, Elephant Apple, Elephant Heart Plum, Ellendale Mandarin, Elliott Blueberry, Ellison's Orange, Elstar Apple, Elvira Grape, Emblic, Emerald Beaut Plum, Emerald Blueberry, Emerald Gem Melon, Emperor Francis Cherry, Emperor Grape, Emperor Mandarin, Empire Apple, Emu Apple, Emu Berry, Encore Mandarin, Engkala, Entawak, Enterprise Apple, Envy Apple, Esopus Spitzenburg, Etrog, Eureka Lemon, European Cranberrybush, European Gooseberry, European Pear, European Plum, Eustis Limequat, Evergreen Huckleberry, Ewais Mango
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the most common fruit that starts with E?
Elderberry is the best-known fruit that starts with E. In stores, the most common E fruits are varieties such as Empire and Envy apples, Eureka lemons and Elberta peaches. Eggplant is also a fruit botanically, though it is cooked as a vegetable.
Is eggplant a fruit?
Yes. Botanically, eggplant is a berry because it develops from the flower and contains seeds. In the kitchen it is treated as a vegetable and is roasted, grilled, fried or stewed rather than eaten raw as a sweet fruit.
What tropical fruit starts with E?
Egg fruit, also called canistel, is a tropical fruit that starts with E. Others include the elephant apple, emblic (amla), entawak and engkala from Borneo, Elakki bananas from India, and mango varieties such as Early Gold, Edward and Ewais.
Can you eat elderberries raw?
Ripe elderberries should be cooked before eating. Raw berries, along with the stems, leaves and unripe fruit, contain compounds that can cause nausea and stomach upset. Cooking them into syrups, jams, pies or wine makes them safe to enjoy.
What is an etrog?
An etrog is a large yellow citron with a thick, fragrant rind and very little juice. It is one of the four species used during the Jewish festival of Sukkot, and its rind can be candied or made into jam.
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