Fruit cocktail is a popular and healthy dessert. It is a combination of cherries, peaches, grapes and some other fruits. It is also packed with light syrup. This a popular option for fruit growers to package fruits that cannot be sold as a whole. While people may have been making fruit cocktail for a long time, the term is only coined by Del Monte back in 1938.

A 1-cup serving of fruit cocktail contains 75.9 calories, making it a good light snack, and including it in your meal plan as a dessert allows you to eat a hearty meal without going over your calorie allowance of 300 to 600 calories. It provides very little fat — 0.1 g per serving. Fruit cocktail is not particularly high in protein either, at 1 g in a portion, but the carbohydrate content is much higher. One cup contains 20.2 g of carbs, or 15.5 percent of 130 g recommended for daily consumption by the Institute of Medicine. Fat, protein and carbohydrates supply fuel for body.