Hello in this article we gonna learn the Nutrition and Benefits of Pineapple. Pineapple itself is a fruit plant in the form of a bush with the scientific name Ananas Cosmosus. Historically, the pineapple fruit is a plant from South America and only began to be disseminated in the 15th to 20th centuries. Even in Southeast Asia, this plant began to enter in the 15th century with the Spaniards who brought pineapples to the Philippines and Peninsular Malaysia until they finally entered Indonesia. Indonesia. There are three types of pineapples that are most often planted in Indonesia, namely Cayenne (Green and Oil pineapples), Queen pineapples (Bogor pineapples), and Spanish pineapples (Red and Crocodile pineapples).
The pineapple that is most often consumed unprocessed is the Queen pineapple with a sweeter, crunchier taste and a more fragrant aroma than other pineapples. The characteristics found in the Cayenne pineapple are the fruit weight of 2.3 kg, cylindrical, slightly flat fruit eyes, orange skin color, pale yellow to yellow flesh color, medium heart (core), sweet taste, and little fiber content. Then the characteristics found in the Queen pineapple are the weight of the fruit which is around 0.5-1.1 kg, protruding eyes, yellow fruit skin color, dark yellow flesh color, small heart, sweet taste, low acid, and fiber content, and color the skin and flesh of the fruit when ripe is golden yellow but the color of the flesh is darker. The latter is characteristic of the Indonesia pineapple with the characteristics of fruit weight 0.9-1.8 kg, round fruit shape, protruding eyes, orange or red fruit skin color, pale yellow to white flesh color, large heart, fibrous, and sour. Each 100 grams contains 50 calories with 0.1 g total fat, 1 mg sodium, 109 mg potassium, 13 g carbohydrates, 1.4 g dietary fiber, 10 g sugar, 0.5 g protein, 79% vitamin C, iron 1%, vitamin B6 5%, magnesium 3%, calcium 1%.
