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Ananas comosus · Tropical fruit
Top 10 pairings
A spiky tropical fruit with golden flesh under a tough, diamond-patterned rind. Intensely sweet and sharply acidic, it carries an enzyme that digests protein, your tongue included, so it quite literally bites back.
Picking a good onedrag
Green, hard, sharpSoft, weeping, boozy
Gold at the baseEveryday bestCuts into clean rings and chunks - grill, skewer, salad, salsa; sweet with the acid still on it.
BaseFaintly sweet, only up close
ShellGold at the base, green shoulders
SqueezeHeavy for its size, slight give
CrownOuter tips brown, centre green
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What you get from one
51%
Edible part
905 g flesh · crown, skin and core out
1775 g
Weight each
each one
Keeping ittap a temperature
Below about 10 °C it browns inside, so keep a whole one cool, not chilled. Chill what you cut.
85-95%
Humidity
Open, air all round
Airflow