

Guacamole may also be considered a fruit salad, consisting predominantly of various fruits and fruit juices such as avocados, lemon and/or lime juice, tomatoes, chili peppers, and black peppercorns.

Mexico has popular variation of the fruit salad called Bionico which consists of various fruits drenched in condensed milk and sour cream mix.

In the Philippines, fruit salads are popular party and holiday fare, usually made with buko, or young coconut, and condensed milk in addition to other canned or fresh fruit. Rojak, a Malaysian fruit salad, uses a spicy sauce with peanuts and shrimp paste. A variation on fruit salad uses whipped cream mixed in with many varieties of fruits (usually a mixture of berries), and also often includes miniature marshmallows. Other recipes use sour cream (such as in ambrosia), yogurt or even custard as the primary sauce ingredient. One variation is a Waldorf-style fruit salad, which uses a mayonnaise-based sauce. Various recipes may call for the addition of nuts, fruit juices, certain vegetables, yogurt, or other ingredients. Common ingredients used in fruit salads include strawberries, pineapple, honeydew, watermelon, grapes, and kiwifruit. There are a number of home recipes for fruit salad that contain different kinds of fruit, or that use a different kind of sauce other than the fruit's own juice or syrup.
