Publix Fruit Tray and Veggie Tray Prices, Pound for Pound
How much is a Publix fruit tray? At Publix’s Southgate Shopping Center store in Lakeland, Florida (#1270), the Fresh Fruit Platter costs $11.99 for about 4 people and $39.99 for about 28.
The Garden Fresh Vegetable Platter runs $13.99 to $37.99 with ranch or blue cheese dressing. Both need a day’s notice, and both get cheaper by the pound as they get bigger.
Fruit and veggie tray prices by size
Publix makes both trays in four sizes, and its order page shows the prices for whichever store you choose. These were the Lakeland store’s prices on November 1, 2026.
| Size | Fruit platter | Vegetable platter |
|---|---|---|
| Mini, about 4 | $11.99 | $13.99 |
| Small, about 10 | $21.99 | $24.99 |
| Medium, about 18 | $32.99 | $32.99 |
| Large, about 28 | $39.99 | $37.99 |
Prices vary by store. The vegetable platter costs more than the fruit platter at the two smaller sizes, the same at the medium and $2 less at the large.
What comes on each tray
The Publix Deli Fresh Fruit Platter holds green and red seedless grapes on the vine, strawberries, green and red apples, cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon and pineapple. Its ingredient list adds that the apples are treated with calcium ascorbate to keep their color.
Publix lists 350 calories for the mini fruit platter, 880 for the small, 1,300 for the medium and 1,770 for the large.
The Publix Deli Garden Fresh Vegetable Platter is baby carrots, celery sticks, broccoli, cauliflower, cucumber and grape tomatoes on a black platter, with your choice of ranch or blue cheese dressing. Its label says it contains milk, egg and soy.
The dressing decides the calorie count. Publix lists the mini vegetable platter at 560 calories with ranch or 900 with blue cheese, the small at 1,460 or 2,470, the medium at 2,080 or 3,400 and the large at 2,320 or 3,660.
Publix’s delivery listing for the small platter shows why. It gives 30 calories a serving for the vegetables, against 50 a tablespoon for ranch and 90 for blue cheese.
Three head counts for the same tray
Publix’s order page and catering menu say both trays serve about 4, 10, 18 or 28 people. Two other Publix pages give different numbers for the same four sizes.
| Size | Order page | Platters page | Delivery site |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mini | 4 | 5 | 4 to 6 |
| Small | 10 | 10 | 8 to 12 |
| Medium | 18 | 18 | 16 to 20 |
| Large | 28 | 28 | 26 to 30 |
The sizing guide on Publix’s fruit and vegetable platters page puts the mini at 5 people, while the vegetable platter’s own page says 4. The delivery site gives ranges, such as 8 to 12 for the small fruit platter.
That delivery site runs through Instacart and charges more than the store does, but its listings carry details the order page leaves out, including weights.
The dip platters on the same page disagree with themselves. The small Dip Variety Platter’s card says about 10 and its product page 8 to 12, and the medium’s page gives both 18 and 16 to 20.
Sandwich platters and dessert platters such as the chocolate covered strawberries wander too, as our rundown of sandwich and dessert platter head counts shows.
What a pound of fruit costs
Weights are a steadier guide than head counts. Publix’s delivery site lists the mini fruit platter at 28 ounces, the small at 60, the medium at 104 and the large at 159, and notes that actual weight can vary with the season.
We divided the Lakeland store’s prices by those weights. That works out to $6.85 a pound for the mini, $5.86 for the small, $5.08 for the medium and $4.02 for the large.
Per guest, Publix’s head counts make the large look less than half the mini’s price, as our catering prices per guest show. By weight, the saving is closer to 40 percent.
On the large platter, a pound of fruit costs $4.02, 3 cents more than a pound of plain watermelon chunks.
The large Publix Fruit Salad, ordered a day ahead at $4.99 a pound, costs less a pound than the three smaller platters but more than the large one. The step from a medium platter to a large adds about 3.4 pounds of fruit for $7, about $2 a pound.
Measured against Publix’s head counts, the fruit platter allows about 6 ounces a guest at every size, from 7 on the mini to 5.7 on the large.
For 10 people we’d skip the small platter and order the large fruit salad. It’s about 4 pounds for an estimated $19.96, or about $2 a serving, against 3.75 pounds for $21.99, if you can live without the apples and the arranged look.
Smaller helpings on the large veggie tray
The vegetable platter doesn’t grow the same way. Its listed weights are 24, 56, 88 and 112 ounces, so the helping per guest shrinks from 6 ounces on the mini to 4 on the large.
By the pound, the vegetable platter runs from $9.33 for the mini to $5.43 for the large, so the big tray is still the better buy.
If raw vegetables are a main event at your party rather than a side, we’d order the large for 20 people, not 28, which brings each helping back to about 5.6 ounces.
Cut fruit from the produce department
Publix’s produce department sells cut fruit two ways. The large Publix Fruit Salad and the large Red Seedless Watermelon Chunks are ordered like platters, with 24 hours’ notice, then weighed and paid for when you pick them up.
Each is about 4 pounds and serves about 10. The fruit salad mixes watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, strawberries, grapes and pineapple at $4.99 a pound, and the watermelon chunks cost $3.99 a pound, an estimated $15.96.
The faster route is the produce case. Publix’s site lists these as shelf items you add to a shopping list, so there’s no order and no wait, though what’s in the case on a given day is up to the store.
- Fruit Salad, Pineapple Chunks and Mango Mixed Fruit, with no online price
- Watermelon chunks and wedges, also unpriced online
- Cantaloupe Chunks, $3.99 a pound
- Pineapple Strawberry Mix, $5.99 a pound
- Tropical Fruit Salad of pineapple, strawberries and kiwi, $6.99 a pound
Cut fruit isn’t automatically the bargain. Only the melon chunks come in under the large platter’s $4.02 a pound, while the berry and pineapple mixes cost more a pound than even the medium platter.
For vegetables, the produce case carries Snack Sensations Veggie Trays with Dip in 20 and 40 ounce sizes, with carrots, celery, broccoli, tomatoes, sugar snap peas and ranch dip. Publix lists them, along with a 20 ounce apple tray with caramel dip and cheese, without an online price, so check the shelf tag.
Other platters with fruit or dip
Publix’s fruit and vegetable platters page lists a few more trays, each with a day’s notice. These are the Lakeland store’s prices, which vary by store.
- Fresh Fruit & Cheese Platter, cantaloupe, grapes, strawberries and apples with brie, hoop cheddar, Manchego and blue cheese, $44.99 for about 18 or $79.99 for about 28
- Dip Variety Platter, two dips, two vegetables and two snacks for $19.99 (about 10), or three dips for $27.99 (about 18)
- Relish Platter, olives, pepperoncini, kosher dill spears and sweet gherkins, $14.99 for about 10, listed at 1,780 calories
- Jeweled Brie Platter, $19.99 for about 4 or $49.99 for about 18, listed at 1,060 and 3,570 calories
Per guest, the large fruit and cheese platter costs more than the medium, $2.86 against $2.50. It lists 9,300 calories against 4,670 for the medium, though, so it carries about twice the food for $35 more while Publix counts only 10 more guests.
On the Dip Variety Platter, the vegetables play a small part. The medium runs 990 to 5,440 calories depending on your picks, and Publix lists 30 to 80 for each vegetable choice, from celery to baby carrots, against 270 for tzatziki and 1,360 for spinach dip.
You pick the dips from classic hummus, tzatziki, royal pimento cheese, Buffalo chicken, spinach, artichoke and spinach, and jalapeño, and the vegetables from baby carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, yellow squash and zucchini. The snacks are Stacy’s pita chips, Pretzel Crisps, 34 Degree crackers or naan dippers.
The Jeweled Brie is French brie glazed with peach preserves and honey and topped with almonds and cranberries, with grapes, apples, strawberries and crackers on the side. It’s priced with the meat trays in our guide to brie, cheese and cold cut trays.
For something sweet, the catering menu’s Boar’s Head Dark Chocolate Dessert Hummus Platter pairs chocolate hummus with pineapple and strawberries, $21.99 for about 18.
Ordering ahead, including Thanksgiving week
Every platter on Publix’s fruit and vegetable page needs 24 hours’ notice, and so do the large fruit salad and watermelon chunks.
The product pages say to call your Publix store if you need a tray sooner, and Publix’s platter FAQ adds that an order placed after noon can’t be picked up until after noon the following day.
For Thanksgiving, Publix’s Thanksgiving order page shows both platters under an “Order by November 23” banner, and it names the mini vegetable platter one of its five top platters this year.
Every Publix closes on Thursday, November 26, so Wednesday is the last day to collect a tray, the same deadline the turkey dinners have in our Thanksgiving dinner timeline.
The vegetable platter comes chilled with a lid, ready to set out, so it can wait in your fridge until guests arrive.
The fruit salad and watermelon chunks can only be paid for in the store, because the price is set when they’re weighed at pickup, so the total can move a little from the estimate.
