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Animal Crossing New Horizons: How to Eat Fruit & What It Does

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It’s time for your Nook Inc desert island getaway pack to launch. In Animal Crossing New Horizons there are plenty of sights to see and places to rebuild. Here’s how to eat fruit & what it does in Animal Crossing New Horizons.

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How to Eat Fruit & What It Does in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Eating fruit can be done by simply opening up your inventory with the X button, scrolling over and highlighting the fruit. After you select the fruit you’ll have a few different options but the one you’re going to want to click on is ‘eat.’

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After eating the fruit you’ll notice a gauge in the top left corner that says 1/10 and will continue to increase every time you eat. This gauge is your energy level and can be increased by one every time you consume a piece of fruit.

Energy is extremely useful because it is the only way to break rocks or dig up trees. In order to use your energy all you have to do is go up to a rock and hit it with an axe, which will break the rock and expend one energy.

Breaking rocks is an extremely useful thing to do as some crafting materials can only be found from breaking rocks. Be sure to always have some fruit on hand if you expend all of your energy.

The same goes for trees. If you go up to a tree with a shovel and dig it up, it will expend one energy. It’s important to note that you can do other activities without energy such as shaking trees, chopping wood, and fishing.

Time needed: 1 minute

To sum up how to eat fruit in Animal Crossing New Horizons:

  1. Pick fruit

    You’ll need to shake some trees to get the fruit to fall. This can be done with the A button when standing next to a tree.

  2. Eat the fruit

    You’ll need to open up your inventory with the X button. From there highlight the fruit and click A, then select the eat option.

  3. Use your energy

    After eating the fruit you’ll have a point of energy, which can be used to smash a rock with your axe or dig up a tree with your shovel.

Well, that’s everything you need to know about how to eat fruit and what it does in Animal Crossing New Horizons. For more tips, tricks, and guides be sure to check out our extensive Animal Crossing Wiki, or just search Twinfinite.


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Jesse Vitelli
Jesse has a B.F.A in Arts Management, a love for all things burritos, and an unreasonable Amiibo collection. His skills include but are not limited to writing about video games, RPG grinding, and being constantly dehydrated. Jesse loves most games, but he really loves games that he can play together with friends and family. This usually means late nights in Destiny 2 or FFXIV. Jesse was a writer for Twinfinite from 2018 to 2020 and is now a writer over at our sister site, Prima Games.