I think the best options are berries. I've also had a tart Apple before with no problem, but I was also walking around an apple farm that day and burned through the fructose pretty quickly.
One way I enjoy some fruit flavor is lemon and lime in my water. Gets the job done without actually consuming fruit.
I have fairly strong feelings about fructose in general so I'm not willing to go too far with fruit.

I'm not keto, net carbs are around 50g, but I have raspberries nearly everyday, blackberries too, but they are a tad higher carbs than the raspberries .

I haven't in awhile but occasionally I'll eat some berries!

I occasionally have a green apple. Mmm.

I hear you, OP. I haven't had any fruit for about a month and I don't especially miss it, but every time I go to the store I find myself by the apple bin... So I guess I miss apples. lol

So far I pretty much stick to small servings (2-3 ounces) of berries when I'm in the mood for fruit. Sometimes I'll allow myself an apricot now and then too...we have a tree in the yard that gives the juiciest, sweetest apricots that totally blow away store-bought apricots. I do miss bananas and apples though. If a recipe I am making calls for a small amount of a high-carb fruit but the carbs per serving aren't too high, then I will allow myself to have some. For example, in the holiday months leading up to Christmas last year I found and made up a LC recipe for ambrosia and it had some mandarin oranges in there. I purposefully did not buy CUTIES because they are SO sweet and sugar-laden. Was good but it worked with my daily carb/sugar numbers and was a nice treat/break from the norm at the time.

When I was at 35 net grams of carbs (about 50 total usually) I'd have 1/2 c of raspberries or blackberries. Fortunately it never triggered cravings for me. I'm trying to stay under 10 g total now, even lower when possible, with my sugar at 5 g max, so I skip it, but hope to be able to increase in the future so I can have fruit again.

Freeze the berries, then suck on them and when they melt enough, chew em up! Slows you down and intensifies the flavours. I also like to eat the crabapples fresh off my tree. You can't eat many but they are so intense it's like eating sour patch candy. All you need is 1 or 2 tiny ones.

I eat either a cup of strawberries or a half cup of raspberries, blueberries, or blackberries or a very controlled single applesauce pouch almost every morning. If you're craving fruit go for it!

chopped strawberries and hwc are my go-to when I have an ice-cream craving.

Frozen berries blended with plain Greek yogurt and a splash of coconut milk is an awesome summer time treat.

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Since I have been low carb and try to avoid white sugar & flour, strawberries in particular taste very sweet!

ha ha yes im in the UK and in the winter get our strawberries freight because our climate is to cold,anyway they are pretty tasteless but because im on ketosis and dont have sugar etc the first time i tasted one was so so sweet,i suppose because i had cut all the sugar

The limp tasteless Winter berries have definitely made fruit easy for me to avoid. When Scottish strawberries are back in season I may see if I can offset the carb intake with increased activity so that I can enjoy them a couple times a week, they are delicious! I'm hopeful as the difference in my blood sugar between 15 and 30 grams of carbs is not that far off that regular exercise couldn't bridge the gap. Maybe strawberries will be the carrot that leads me to the gym lol.