How to eat pineapple?

2 min read · 22 Nov 2019 · 25

#ananas #fruit #zoet #voeding #vitaminen

Pineapple: The juicy sweet fruit that won't make you fat. Is there anything better than this exotic vitamin bomb? And yet there are people who don't like them. My roommates, for example. That doesn't stop me from buying them regularly. Fresh, of course, not the faint variant of canned. The problem is, I usually have to eat those delicious discs alone. In the old days I first cut the upper part of the pineapple, then that annoying chlorophyll was already gone. Then I started on the first disc, one every day. The rest was covered and went into the fridge. By the time I started on the last lower part after a few days, this was usually brown, when no mold spores came to spoil the fun. I noticed that the first disc was still disappointing, unlike the sweet lower disc.

This had to be better: Now I start by eating the nicely sweet lower parts. I still cut off the chlorophyll first to fit better in the fridge. Due to the ripening process, day after day, the upper parts are sweet and not overripe at the end of the week.

And another thing for pineapple lovers... Why are some pineapples much more expensive and sweeter than others? Well, that's because the more expensive ones came by plane. The day before yesterday they were on the field in the sun-drenched Costa Rica. The cheaper ones have been on their way by boat for several weeks. They were removed unripe and lay in the dark ship's hold. In any case: eating pineapple: sweeter from the bottom to the top!