25 Most Expensive Fruits in the World, Ranked

Prized across Japan and East Asia, premium Nashi pears are individually pampered and netted to prevent any bruising. Selected specimens fetch upward of eight to twelve dollars each in luxury department store fruit parlors.

Mark Twain famously described the cherimoya as the most delicious fruit known to men. Hand-pollinated cultivars produced under precise microclimates sell for ten to twenty dollars per fruit.

Native to the highlands of South America, the aromatic feijoa features a delicate jelly center. Premium organic specimens shipped overnight to international gourmet grocers command fifteen to twenty-five dollars a pound.

Translating to world number one, Sekai-Ichi apples from Aomori Prefecture are individually hand-pollinated with tiny wands and washed in honey wine. A single pristine apple sells for twenty-one to twenty-five dollars.

Resembling multiple reaching fingers, Buddha's hand citrus produces no juicy pulp, only pure intensely fragrant pith and zest. Used in traditional Chinese medicine and luxury perfumery, single fruits sell for twenty to thirty dollars.

Salak, or snake fruit, grows on palm trees throughout Indonesia in tight spiky clusters. Cultivated varieties like Salak Pondoh have crisp sweet flesh with an apple-like crunch, commanding twenty-five to thirty-five dollars per box abroad.

With pliable spines resembling hair, the Southeast Asian rambutan conceals translucent floral flesh similar to lychee. Freshly harvested bunches air-freighted overseas sell for thirty to forty dollars per kilogram.

The Brazilian grapetree bears thick purple berries directly on its main trunk and branches. Because jabuticaba ferments within three to four days of harvest, fresh berries command up to forty-five dollars a pound in export markets.

Far sweeter than common red dragon fruit varieties, the yellow pitahaya originates from Ecuador and Colombia. High-sugar artisan harvests packaged in custom protective cradles sell for thirty-five to fifty dollars each.

Legend holds that Queen Victoria offered a reward to anyone who could bring her fresh mangosteens. With strict import regulations and delicate perishable segments, gift boxes of prime mangosteens retail for forty to fifty dollars.

Grown inside individual paper bags to shield their skin from sunlight, Japanese Shimizu Hakuto white peaches develop an ivory hue and melting texture. High-grade gift peaches sell for forty to sixty dollars each.

Resembling an exploding star or a giant pinecone, the hala fruit comes from the Pandanus tectorius tree across the Pacific Islands. Whole ripe fruit heads sell for fifty to eighty dollars in artisan markets.

Bred in Japan, Shine Muscat grapes are celebrated for their thin edible skins, floral aroma, and high sugar content. Flawless gift bunches displayed in velvet-lined boxes easily sell for fifty to one hundred dollars.

A cross between a mandarin and an orange, Dekopon is recognized by its topknot protrusion and seedless sweetness. Top-tier Japanese harvests cured for forty days to balance acidity sell for eighty to one hundred dollars per pack.

Grown in Saga Prefecture with minimal sun exposure to restrict anthocyanin development, White Jewel strawberries remain almost entirely snowy white. Due to low yield rates, single giant berries retail for forty to one hundred dollars.

Indigenous to the rainforests of Queensland and New South Wales, the finger lime contains bead-like juice vesicles resembling caviar pearls. Prized by Michelin-star chefs worldwide, high-grade fruit commands up to one hundred sixty dollars per pound.

In Shizuoka Prefecture, Crown melons are grown using a one tree, one fruit principle where farmers prune away all other buds to concentrate nutrients. Each melon is hand-massaged daily, fetching one hundred fifty to two hundred fifty dollars.

Originating in Kagawa Prefecture, square watermelons are forced to grow within tempered glass cases. Harvested before peak ripeness to preserve their sharp geometry, these ornamental showpieces command four hundred to eight hundred dollars.

Nurtured inside Victorian horse-manure heated pits at the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, these rare pineapples require two years of labor. Though never sold commercially, growing costs value each fruit at approximately sixteen hundred dollars.

To qualify as Taiyo no Tamago, Miyazaki mangoes must weigh at least 350 grams and contain fifteen percent sugar content or higher. Suspended in delicate nets until naturally falling from the tree, auction pairs sell for three thousand to forty-five hundred dollars.

Cultivated exclusively on Hokkaido island, Densuke watermelons are renowned for their glossy dark rind and crunchy sweet red flesh. With only around one hundred melons produced annually, premier season auctions reach six thousand one hundred dollars.

Developed over eleven years in Gifu Prefecture, Tenka Fubu persimmons must meet a minimum sugar concentration of twenty-five degrees Brix and weigh over 300 grams. A record pair sold at auction for roughly ten thousand dollars.

Each ping-pong ball-sized Ruby Roman grape must weigh over twenty grams with eighteen percent sugar content. Grown exclusively in Ishikawa Prefecture, a record single bunch fetched twelve thousand dollars at an opening season auction.

Grown in nutrient-rich volcanic ash soil in Yubari, Hokkaido, these cantaloupes are fitted with paper hats to prevent sunburn and massaged daily. In 2019, a premier pair commanded a staggering forty-five thousand dollars at auction.

Harvested from heritage orchards along the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi, Thailand, Kanyao durians possess sweet custard pulp without pungent odors. In 2019, a single handpicked fruit set a world record auction price of forty-eight thousand dollars.