Eli's quest for fruit

Everyday, Eli's lunchbox comes home with his apple untouched. We've had several chats about what types of fruit he would eat for lunch...apples, no ("too hard and they get brown if you cut them up"), clementines, no ("too stringy"), bananas, no ("all those BROWN spots!"), raisins, no ("too weird and smooshy"). Eli loves pears but they don't have the shelf life of an apple, so I asked him if canned pears would work..."not really." Finally he says to me this evening, "if you don't have pears, I'll eat persimmon or mango." Sadly, I'm fresh out. What's next...pomegranate?