
Rapidly increasing population and industrialization, pollution of the earth's atmosphere, underground and aboveground sources, chemicals that are added to and accumulated in the consumables, unnecessary and overuse of medical drugs disrupt human health, adversely affect the quality of life and shorten life-expectancy. In recent years, societies, with the effect of the research done on the usefulness of the foods they have found tasty, have started to enrich their diets with fruit species that will protect them from harmful environmental conditions and substances and help them to control and stop these harmful effects and have raised their awareness of natural diet and quality life. This awareness has lead peoples of the world to the consumption of particular fruit species. These fruits are popular fruits. It is possible to define the popular fruit species in the world as fruit species which are known by the majority of the world nations, which are appealing to their tastes, which are produced by many countries in the world and which have the greatest amount of production and export. In the current study, it is aimed to determine which fruit species are popular and are in the way of becoming popular, their features and the reasons that make these fruit species popular; thus, to reveal their spreading patterns and potentials.