Description

Pineapple,Ananas comosus, belongs to theBromeliaceaefamily, from which one of its most important healthpromoting compounds, the enzyme bromelain, was named. The Spanish name for pineapple,pina, and the root of its English name, reflects the fruits visual similarity to the pinecone 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 marking on the pineapples surface.