two baskets of fruit(s)

[kadioguy]

There is a man holding two baskets of fruit or There is a man holding two baskets of fruits?
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Friend: "Fruits" is perfectly fine as a plural if you want to talk about it like the individual fruits, but more often people default to talking about fruit uncountably, so two baskets of fruit with no -s.

Me: I'd use "fruits" because I think there is more than one kind of fruit.

Friend: What I said works regardless of whether there are multiple kinds of fruit. "A fruit" can mean one fruit as in one of those durians (?) in his basket or it can mean a species of fruit, but regardless, people tend to talk about fruit as a mass noun, like "meat" (where "a meat" pretty much always means a type of meat).
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Question: I still think that both furit and furits could work here. What do you think?

 

[Barque]

I'd use "carrying two baskets of fruit".

Me: I'd use "fruits" because I think there is more than one kind of fruit.

That's possible where you want to emphasise more than one kind. Some fruits grow on trees and some on vines.

Here, the sentence is just meant to say that he's carrying baskets of fruit. I agree with what your friend said.

 

[kadioguy]

That's possible where you want to emphasise more than one kind. Some fruits grow on trees and some on vines.

Would "when" also work here? I guess it is. Is that right?

 

[Barque]

Yes. So does "if".