An alternative is to filter for the good rows and hide the bad ones. Most operations apply only to the visible rows in filtered view (Formatting, Fill, Find/Replace, Copy, etc.) so you don’t need to change the sort order.

Additionally, applying Advanced Filter can be much quicker than individual lookup formulas, and you can either filter in place and mark the rows by filling down with an “X” or extract data to another sheet. Just add a header to your list of fruit and use this for the criteria range, this can be placed on a separate sheet or a temporary location in a new workbook.

One thing to be aware of is that for text criteria the default compare operation for Advanced Filter and other Database Functions is “begins with”. This often won’t matter but you may want to prefix the fruit with an equals sign to make the match exact (or toggle the “Transition Formula Evaluation” setting but make sure to turn it off after).

Just one more thing that I usually setup when I’m working on such tables:
If a Record Number column doesn’t already exist, I add it to the table.
This way, when I want to, I can revert to the original sort order of the table, with a single click.
I have added the Sort buttons to my QAT in Excel 2007.

A few other points:
1. The new column can be inserted before the first (or after the last), column in the table.
If the table has a defined range name (especially ‘Database’), then be sure to expand the RefersTo property of the range name, in the Name Manager.
Otherwise, when you sort the table, the Record Number column may not be sorted along with the rest of the table, and values in that column will stay where they are !

2. My preferred method of creating the record number is to type ’00001 in a new column against the first record.
The ‘ (single-quote) prefix ensures that the record number is created with padded zeros, and is treated as text.
This is a personal preference, for various reasons.
Insert fewer or more zeros in the record number as per the count of records in the table.

3. If the cells in the column to the left or right of this cell are filled all the way down to the last record,
just double-click on the Fill Handle of this cell. It will fill sequential record numbers down the column upto the last record.
If the cells in the adjacent column are not completely filled, then you can do a quick fill-down of the first cell, in the record number column itself.
Then do the double-click step from the first record, to fill sequential record numbers.

Khushnood Viccaji
Mumbai, India

I’m with @Bob. I get #VALUE! when not array entered.

But that’s a different kettle of formula altogether.

I generally don’t like the idea of literals embedded in formulas, but I can dream up a case where this kind of trick could make the code more readable.