The performance of a newly-developed portable rapid detector of contamination in fruits and vegetables (PRD) was tested in lab, by detecting the content of nitrite, heavy metal and pesticide in different samples. The detection ranges of nitrite, lead, phoxim, trichlorfon, carbofuran and methomyl were 1.5～150, 0.5～4.0, 0.005～2.0, 0.005～0.5, 0.005～0.3 and 0.005～1.0μg/mL, respectively. Precision tests, made on different concentration levels, gave values of RSD in the ranges of 2.6%～8.9% for lead, and less than 2% for nitrite, and the sensitivity of the four pesticides ranged from 31.368 to 62.05. The results show that the accuracy and precision detecting the three kinds of contamination can meet the requirement of rapid detection compared with Optizen 2120V-FT machine. The PRD is more simple, rapid, portable and feasible for application.