Pineapple

 

Topic.

Pineapple

 

Introduction.

An edible fruit is a pineapple (Ananas comosus), a perennial plant in the Bromeliaceous family. The pineapple has been introduced to other regions besides its native tropical and subtropical America. In what is loosely referred to as Pan-Asian cuisine, the fruit has evolved into a defining component of the meat, vegetable, fish, and rice meals. Where it is available, people around the world enjoy the fruit both fresh and tinned. It is occasionally used as a pastry filling or in baked sweets in the US and Europe.

 

Physical description and cultivation

 

On a thick, fleshy stem, the plant has 30 to 40 stiff, succulent leaves that are closely arranged in a rosette. On a flower stalk measuring 100-150 mm (4-6 inches) in length, a determinate inflorescence develops on commercial types 15–20 months after planting. The pineapple fruit, which ripens five to six months after flowering starts, is made up of the formerly independent light purple flowers and their bracts, each of which is joined to a central axis core. Commercial fruit weights range from 1 to 2 kg (2 to 4 pounds) per fruit.

over modern plantations, rows of asphalt-impregnated mulch paper are typically put first over well-tilled soil, with the edges covered to secure the strips of paper. The pineapple propagation pieces are placed in the soil through the paper at intervals that will result in 15,000–20,000 plants per acre.

History.

Christopher Columbus, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, and Sir Walter Raleigh, who discovered pineapple growing in the West Indies and utilized it for food and wine production, made the first documented references to pineapple.

 

It appears that the Portuguese were in charge of the pineapple's early distribution. Soon after they found that island in 1502, they brought it to Saint Helena. They transported it soon after to Africa and, by 1550, to India. Most tropical regions of the world, including certain South Pacific islands, had the plant under cultivation by the end of the 16th century. Brazil, China, India, Thailand, Costa Rica, and Brazil are among the world's top pineapple producers today.

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