fruit bar

1 1.2

A baked sweet snack with chopped fruit cut into bars

noun
/fruːt bɑːr/

: barra de frutas

She reached for a fruit bar to satisfy her sweet tooth between meals.
frozen fruit bars

Examples

Can I have a fruit bar?

Failure to Launch (2006)
We're gonna make fruit bars.

I'll Do Anything (1994)
After lunch, I always enjoy a fruit bar as a sweet treat.
For a healthy snack, I packed a fruit bar in my lunch today.

Synonyms

date bar

vsfruit bar

2.7

A sweet baked slice made with chopped dates and a crumbly crust

uses whole chopped natural filling rather than smooth spreads

apricot bar

vsfruit bar

2.3

A sweet baked slice with apricot jam or fruit

uses chopped or mixed natural filling instead of jamlike spreads

How Fruity

fruit custard

1.1

fruit bar

1 1.2

nut bar

1 2.5

Surface Forms

fruit bar singular

fruit bars plural

Morphology

fruit + bar

This noun–noun combination is compositionally transparent: a "fruit bar" is readily understood as a bar-shaped snack made from fruit, analogous to familiar compounds like "chocolate bar" or "granola bar." The food sense of "bar" is common and cross-linguistically paralleled, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning without prior exposure.

Etymology

Fruit bar likely comes from the simple kitchen image of fresh or dried fruit mixed or pressed into a long, flat bar, like a candy or granola bar. That's why the name means 'a sweet snack made with fruit and cut into bar-shaped pieces'.