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One of the bestknown tropical fruits. But not so many people know how they are really grown, not in cans, that's for sure.

Lets have a closer look:

The Ananas are fruits out of the family of the Bromeliaceae. They were found in 1493 by Christof Columbus on the island of Guadeloupe in the north of Dominica(the first island that he found after his journey over the seas). The Ananas contains a lot of vitamines, minerals and enzyms like Bromelin or Bromelain. This is good for your digestion, heals and cools inflammations,  lowers blood pressure and helps to lower the risk of arteriosklerosis. It also contains Vitmain E that may prevents your body from free radicals. They say that Ananas also helps in case of problems with your stomach or with arthralgia.

In our days Ananas could be found all over the world in the tropical belt between 25° North and South.Well konown are the Plantations of Hawai. We known their product mostly in a tin canned form and enjoy them as Toast Hawai etc.

Aside the fresh Ananas the conserved(heated) form of Ananas has its significance in the modern cuisine. Because the Bromelin was destroyed by the heat it does not sour Milkdishes or the gelation of Puddings, The fresh Ananas could be useed to get meat more mellow.

The most famous sort of this fruit is the ordinary Ananas (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.), thatcome from the tropical America und now is cultivated in Africa, Asia and the south of Europe too. Since 1830 the Ananaas gets breeded in big glasshouses in Europe. In fact the ANans is not one single fruit, sccientifically it mus be seen as a union of fruits cause it gets collected out of a lot of single blossoms and their bracts.  But in colloquial language we talk of one ananas fruit and so we will continue to do so here.

If you want to enjoy it you have to carefully prepare the fruit at first. You have to cut of the complete head with its small and hard leaves, peel of the pod, cut it into quarters (from he top) and get rid off the stem in the middle. To really enjoy it the fruit should be ripe the it will taste sweet with a little sour in it. You can smell it if the Anans is ripe enough to be enjoyed.