I like that shit #5

PINEAPPLES!

People often look at me like I have some malicious thing growing out of my face when I see Pineapples and get all giddy inside, so what if I bounce around clapping my hands like a mental patient. I like pineapples... A lot.







Pineapples are great. They are the perfect summer fruit and therefore remind me of summer. I like summer as well but that's a different post for a later time. Pineapples are bright and absolutely delicious!

They also hold a lot of sentimental value to me. That again is another post for another time.

Pineapples are actually not just one fruit but a composite of many flowers whose individual fruitlets fuse together around a central core. Each fruitlet can be identified by an "eye," the rough spiny pokey things on the pineapple's surface. (interesting isn't it.)

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2. Nutrition Facts
   PineapplePineapple, extra sweetPineapple, traditionalPineapple
   

   Amount Per 1 slice, thin (3-1/2" dia x 1/2" thick) (56 g)1 slice (3-1/2" dia x 3/4" thick) (84 g)100 grams1 cup, chunks (165 g)1 slice (4-2/3" dia x 3/4" thick) (166 g)1 fruit (905 g)100 grams

   Calories 50                                                       % Daily Value*

3. Total Fat 0,1 g	0%
   Saturated fat 0 g	0%
   Polyunsaturated fat 0 g
   Monounsaturated fat 0 g
   Cholesterol 0 mg	0%
   Sodium 1 mg	0%
   Potassium 109 mg	3%
   Total Carbohydrate 13 g	4%
   Dietary fiber 1,4 g	5%
   Sugar 10 g
   Protein 0,5 g	1%

   Vitamin A	1%	Vitamin C	79%
   Calcium	1%	Iron	1%
   Vitamin D	0%	Vitamin B-6	5%
   Vitamin B-12	0%	Magnesium	3%

   *Per cent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

So basically, Pineapples are the shit and you should eat them and wear them (Prints, not actual pineapples please) and love them and grow them.

Interesting facts about pineapples:

It takes almost 3 years for a single pineapple to reach maturation. (Which makes the price tag a bit more understandable.)




Once harvested, pineapples don't continue to ripen. 

That means that every single pineapple in the grocery store is as ripe as it will ever be so don't buy one and save it for a week, thinking it will ripen. The difference in colors is mostly based on where the pineapples were grown so a green pineapple can be just as sweet and delicious as a golden brown one.



When it drizzles on a sunny day in Hawaii, locals call it “pineapple juice.”



Pineapple is good for colds and coughs
Pineapples are packed with Vitamin C and all the flu fighting goodness you'd expect to get from oranges except pineapples have something EXTRA special! Bromelain, an enzyme which is found in pineapples, is excellent for digestion and has been found to help suppress coughs and loosen mucus.