We’re back again with more fruits, and watermelon, our winner last time, has got some hefty competition if it wants to progress to the next round. 

  The lineup is fierce this time, with fan favorites like the kiwi, lime, coconut, cherry, and some more.

  The first fruit is a fresh one, with a really goofy looking bird named after it: it’s the kiwi! The fuzz of this fruit gives it an endearing quality, and the taste certainly doesn’t disappoint, especially when paired with the strawberry. They’re easy to eat and come with a good source of vitamins, fiber, and antioxidants. A great start to the new candidates, a worthy A.

  Next up is the lemon’s green cousin, the lime. Adding great flavor to drinks and tortilla chips, the lime is a complementary fruit. It’s not meant to be eaten alone, believe me I tried. With its support role, it can’t really be seen as a standalone, and therefore it is reserved for a B ranking.

  Surprisingly a fruit, the coconut bowls its way in for a strike, and flops with a gutter ball (bowling is really hard). While its appearance is certainly unique, and its milk is not too bad, this fruit also finds itself in a support role rather than a standalone pick. However, over the lime, the coconut has a fun design for percussion instruments, wearable accessories, a cup for drinks, and even got its own sport in bowling, using plastic replicas to not damage any valuable coconuts. This gives it an edge over many other fruits, so putting taste aside, the coconut deserves an A+.

  Ahh, the cherry. This fruit comes in pairs, and goes on top of a sundae. They taste really sweet, but the pit is very cumbersome. Cherries are bright, colorful, fun, and full of Vitamin C and antioxidants. They also help with muscle recovery after exercise! The cherry is a solid fruit, so I’ll give it a B+.

  Grapefruit is vile in every possible way. It may look like an orange, but it is actually an assassin, ready to violate your taste buds. There are few redeeming qualities to the grapefruit; most of its health benefits can be found in other, more delicious places. It is an insult that grapefruit should even be considered among greats like watermelons and bananas and coconuts. It lacks originality in anything but its putrid taste. I don’t want to talk anymore about the grapefruit, so I’m giving it an F.

  Going back to actually good fruits, we have raspberries. They are tasty, fun looking, and there is an imaginary blue variant of them that somehow has its own flavor and definitely isn’t an excuse for candy companies to have a blue colored fruit-tasting option because no fruit that is naturally occurring is bright blue, but I digress. The raspberry is good for you, and you should eat it. Is it the best fruit? No. But it is good, a solid B-.

  So it’s down to our previous winner, the watermelon, and our new runner up, the coconut. Both are iconic, it’s certainly close. Watermelon has taste, but coconut has a better design. This is a ranking of fruit though, and fruit is food, so watermelon will continue on to the next round on account of its taste.

  Thank you for tuning into another exciting battle of the fruits, and listening to more viable candidates (besides the grapefruit) and my takes on them. We’ll see who watermelon has to beat next time, on The Great Fruit Dispute.