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Rainbow Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips | Healthy Family Snack Recipe

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August 5, 2026 Recipes

dish pattern Rainbow Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips

Not a fan of traditional tomato salsa?

Give this sweet and colorful fruit version a try! Rainbow Fruit Salsa is packed with vitamin C, vitamin A, and fiber. It makes a fun snack, side dish, or healthy dessert.

Bowls of chopped fruit and juice arranged neatly

Ingredients Fruit Salad Ingredients

  • 1 cup strawberries, fresh or frozen, chopped
  • 1 cup chopped peaches or apricots, fresh or canned
  • 1 cup of grapes or kiwi, chopped
  • 2 firm apples like Gala or Honeycrisp, peeled and chopped
  • 2 tablespoons peach, apricot, or strawberry jam
  • ½ cup orange juice
  • Sugar to taste, if needed
Tip!

You can substitute other fruits if you don’t have these!

notebook icon Fruit Salad Directions

Rinsing strawberries in colander under running faucet
1.

Wash and peel fresh fruit.

Chopped mixed fruit in glass bowl on wooden table
2.

Finely chop the fruit and place it in a large bowl. For a smoother texture, pulse the fruit a few times in a food processor until it looks like salsa.

Whisk mixing fruit preserves into orange juice
3.

In a small bowl, stir together the jam and orange juice.

Pouring orange glaze over mixed fruit salad
4.

Pour the jam mixture over the fruit and mix well.

Hand sprinkling sugar onto mixed fruit salad bowl
5.

Add a small amount of sugar if needed.

Colorful fruit salad with crispy cinnamon tortilla chips
6.

Serve with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips.

stacked rounded rectangles Cinnamon Tortilla Chips

Ingredients

  • 7 small whole wheat tortillas
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • ½ tablespoon cinnamon

Directions

  • Preheat oven or toaster oven to 450° F.
  • Using clean kitchen scissors or a knife, cut each tortilla into 6 wedges.
  • Place the wedges on a baking sheet or piece of aluminum foil.
  • In a small bowl, mix the cinnamon and sugar.
  • Lightly brush each tortilla wedge with water and sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar mixture.
  • Bake for about 10 minutes, or until crisp.

question Why Choose Whole Grains

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend making at least half of the grains you eat whole grains.

What is a Whole Grain?
A whole grain contains all three parts of the grain:
Whole grain pattern, tileable vegetable-like motif

Refined grains usually contain only the endosperm. This removes much of the fiber and many important nutrients.

Did you know?
Common whole-grain foods include:
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Whole wheat bread
Rolled oats piled in a small heap
Oatmeal
Oat ring cereal scattered on white background
Whole-grain cereal
White bowl filled with raw brown rice
Brown rice
Whole wheat fusilli pasta piled on white background
Whole wheat pasta
Stack of whole wheat tortillas overlapping each other
Whole wheat tortillas
Two whole wheat crackers overlapping slightly
Whole-grain crackers
Many WIC-approved foods are whole grains, making it easier to include them in your meals and snacks.

Decorative abstract shape How Can Whole Grains Help?

Eating whole grains as part of a healthy diet may help:

  • ✓ Support heart health
  • ✓ Lower the risk of type 2 diabetes
  • ✓ Maintain healthy blood pressure
  • ✓ Reduce inflammation
  • ✓ Support a healthy weight
  • ✓ Keep your digestive system healthy

Try choosing whole-grain foods more often to help your family get the fiber and nutrients they need!

Remember!
Mother and toddler sharing chips and fruit salsa

REFERENCES:

United States Department of Agriculture. (2025). Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025 – Executive Summary.
https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/DGA_2020-2025_ExecutiveSummary_English.pdf

Whole Grains Council. (2026). What’s a whole grain?
https://wholegrainscouncil.org/whole-grains-101/whats-whole-grain-refined-grain

Sawicki CM, Jacques PF, Lichtenstein AH, Rogers GT, Ma J, Saltzman E, McKeown NM. Whole- and Refined-Grain Consumption and Longitudinal Changes in Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in the Framingham Offspring Cohort. J Nutr. 2021 Sep 4;151(9):2790-2799. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxab177. PMID: 34255848; PMCID: PMC8417925.
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Tighe P, Duthie G, Vaughan N, Brittenden J, Simpson WG, Duthie S, Mutch W, Wahle K, Horgan G, Thies F. Effect of increased consumption of whole-grain foods on blood pressure and other cardiovascular risk markers in healthy middle-aged persons: a randomized controlled trial. Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Oct;92(4):733-40. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.2010.29417. Epub 2010 Aug 4. PMID: 20685951.
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Miles G., Rangan A and Grafenauer S. Whole Grain Consumption and Inflammatory Markers: A Systematic Literature Review of Randomized Control Trials. Nutrients. 2022 Jan; 14(2): 374.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8778110/

McRae MP. Health Benefits of Dietary Whole Grains: An Umbrella Review of Meta-analyses. J Chiropr Med. 2017 Mar;16(1):10-18. doi: 10.1016/j.jcm.2016.08.008. Epub 2016 Nov 18. PMID: 28228693; PMCID: PMC5310957.
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Author: Amanda Hojnacki