Wumpa Fruit

Wumpa Fruit are Crash's favorite food and a common object of all Crash Bandicoot games. Collecting 100 wumpa fruits will give Crash an extra life (platformers from Crash Bandicoot to Twinsanity). In Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage, Crash instead has infinite lives and certain amounts of wumpa fruits are needed to access some levels and buy trading cards. Crash Team Racing and Crash Nitro Kart uses wumpa fruit to "juice-up" the weapons that players pick up throughout a race or during a battle. In Crash of the Titans, they are used to replenish health. Also in Crash of the Titans, there is a golden wumpa fruit that gives the player a life. They are obtained when the player sacrifices a titan to a large mojo sphere or when a spybot is destroyed.

During Doctor N. Gin's boss fight in Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, Crash launches wumpa fruit at N. Gin's mech to damage it. If Crash spins wumpa fruits, they will fly away. But, if Crash slides into wumpa fruit, he will collect it normally. In Crash Bash, they were used in Crate Crush and Tank Wars for restoring health.

Entry in Crash 2's instruction booklet
The following info is taken from the Crash 2 instruction booklet.

"Collect 100 pieces of Wumpa Fruit and earn a free life (1-up)."

Appearances

 * Crash Bandicoot
 * Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
 * Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped
 * Crash Team Racing
 * Crash Bash
 * Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex
 * Crash Nitro Kart
 * Crash Twinsanity
 * Crash of the Titans
 * Crash: Mind Over Mutant
 * Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure
 * Crash Bandicoot: N-Tranced
 * Crash Bandicoot Purple: Ripto's Rampage
 * Crash Tag Team Racing
 * Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken (as Apples)

Trivia

 * In Crash Bandicoot, if players happen to leave Crash standing for too long, Crash will hit himself with a wumpa fruit, revealing purple juice. However, this has been retconned from Crash Tag Team Racing onward, with the juice being yellow instead.
 * In Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex, if players leave Crash standing for a while, he'll start juggling a wumpa fruit or pull one out of his ear.
 * In Crash of The Titans, wumpa fruits are instead used as items to restore health (possibly because their function was replaced with Mojo).
 * They have a strong resemblance to peaches.
 * In Dansu! De Jump! Na Daibouken manga, wumpa fruits are called apples.
 * Wumpa fruits were supposed to be appear in Crash Tag Team Racing as a collectible.