Pineapple
Vitamin & Minerals: Antioxidant, vitamins C and A, Manganese,
Calcium, Bromelain.
How to consume: You can eat as fruit and you can use pineapple
juice In cocktails. You can also add to salads and cakes. It Is also
great for decoration purposes.
Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is the common name for an edible tropical plant and
also its fruit (although technically multiple fruit merged together and perceived as
one). It is native to Paraguay and the southern part of BraziL. [2] Pineapple is eaten
fresh or canned and is available as a juice or in juice combinations. It is used in
desserts, salads, as a complement to meat dishes and in fruit cocktail. While sweet
it is known for its high acid content (perhaps malic and/or citric). Pineapple are
the only bromeliad fruit in widespread cultivation. It is one of the most
commercially important plants which carry out CAM photosynthesis.
The word pineapple in English was first recorded in 1398, when it was originally
used to describe the reproductive organs of conifer trees (now termed pine cones).
When European explorers discovered this tropical fruit, they called them
pineapples (term first recorded in that sense in 1664) because of their resemblance
to what is now known as the pine cone. The term pine cone was first recorded in
1694 and was used to replace the original meaning of pineapple.
(Wikipedia)