Yoshi's Story/Gameplay

Fruit
There are seven different types of fruit found throughout the game. These seven are: apples, bananas, watermelons, grapes, melons, peppers and heart fruit. Each Yoshi has a favorite fruit that gives them more health and points when eaten, although all Yoshis like melons.
 * Black Yoshi likes all types of fruit.
 * Blue Yoshi likes grapes.
 * Green Yoshi likes watermelons.
 * Light Blue Yoshi likes grapes.
 * Pink Yoshi likes apples.
 * Red Yoshi likes apples.
 * Yellow Yoshi likes bananas.
 * White Yoshi likes all types of fruit.

All Yoshis except for Black and White hate peppers and suffer from eating them. The Heart Fruit makes Yoshi super happy, invincible, increases the length of his tongue and gives him infinite eggs for a limiteed amount of time. Also, White and Black Yoshis can hover farther when using the hover jump technique while super happy. Black and White Yoshi's appear later in the game as dont seem to appear in the first few levels.

Items
There are a lot of different items located around Yoshi's Story. Some may help, while others may hinder.
 * Egg Block: This white and spotted box will drop out eggs every single time Yoshi hits it with his head, only if Yoshi doesn't already have six eggs trailing behind him. This will be one of the most handy items, since you need eggs basically everywhere you go. The color of the spots on the box and the eggs will correspond to the color of the Yoshi that the player has chosen.
 * Message Block: This block with a talking face on it will tell you things you need to know about the game if Yoshi hits it. Although, it will generally be talk about how to perform different actions or what something is, sometimes they will tell you where secret things are hiding. Sometimes even the infamous black or white Yoshis.
 * Mystery Crate: These big boxes with question marks on them can be pushed or slammed, depending on what you need to do in a certain area. Most of the time you'll need to push one of the boxes over to another box to make two melons appear.
 * Mystery Block:
 * Coin: Each coin increases Yoshi's mood by one.
 * Special Heart: Collecting these will increase level selection on the next page.
 * Heart Fruit: This will make Yoshi invincible for a short time as well as increase the length of his tongue and allow him to shoot unlimited eggs. Ground pounding will pop bubbles and convert some enemies to fruit.
 * Surprise Ball: If Yoshi licks one of these, he will flip onto it.
 * Bumper Ball:
 * Mystery Ball: These often contain special hearts, but not always.
 * Mystery Switch:
 * Delay Switch:
 * Chili Pepper: Unfortunately, this will reduce Yoshi's current health and should be avoided. It will only hurt if it is swallowed.
 * Pipe: These take Yoshi somewhere else. They can be used in both directions.
 * Warp Vase: Basically a one way pipe.
 * Black Egg and White Egg:
 * Power Bee: Returns your smile meter to full.
 * Power Flower: This allows Yoshi to recover some health by swallowing the petals, which reappear almost immediately and can therefore be used to fully recover health.
 * Power Tulip: