Pineapple is not a hot fruit nor a cool fruit, belonging to the flat fruit.

Pineapple is flat, sweet, slightly acidic, slightly astringent, slightly cold in nature, and has the effect of clearing the summer heat and quenching thirst, eliminating food and stopping diarrhea, replenishing the spleen and stomach, fixing the energy, benefiting the qi and blood, eliminating food, eliminating dampness, nourishing the face and slimming down, etc., but it is not advisable to eat too much at a time.

The vast majority of pineapples have rosette-shaped leaf clusters, the leaf clusters at the base of the formation of a water storage leaf cylinder, this kind of pineapple growth and development of water, not stored in the leaf flesh, but stored in the cluster of leaf clusters in the center of the naturally occurring groove at the point of growth (i.e., unique rosette-shaped leaf cylinder) in addition to the growing season need to be watered frequently to keep the pot moist.

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1, vitamins and minerals:? Pineapple is rich in vitamin A, vitamin C, fiber, potassium, phosphorus and calcium.

2, antioxidants:? Antioxidants are very important to fight against free radicals that damage the body's cells and help prevent many diseases such as atherosclerosis, heart disease, arthritis and various cancers.

3, anti-cold:? Pineapple is rich in vitamin C and pineapple enzymes, can fight viruses and infections. When you have a cold or cough, taking medicine and eating pineapple can help speed up the healing process.

Species classification

1, Cayenne: also known as Sarawak, the French expedition in South America Guyana Cayenne region found and named. Cultivation is extremely wide, accounting for about 80% of the world's pineapple cultivation area. Plants tall and robust, leaf margins without thorns or a few thorns at the tip of the leaf.

2, queen class: the oldest cultivars, more than 400 years of cultivation history, for South Africa, Vietnam and China, one of the main cultivars. The plant is moderately large, the leaves are shorter than those of the Cayenne class, and there are spines on the leaf margins; the fruit is cylindrical or conical, and the weight of a single fruit is 400 to 1500 grams.

3, Spain class: larger plants, softer leaves, yellow-green, leaf margins have red spines, but there are also thornless varieties; fruit medium-large, single-fruit weight of 500 ~ 1000 grams, small fruits are large and flattened, the central bulge or depression; eye deep, orange flesh, strong flavor, more fiber, for the production of canned goods and fruit juice.

4, hybrid species: is through sexual hybridization and other means of cultivation of hybrid breeding of good seed. The plant is tall and erect, the leaf edge has thorns, the flower is lavender, the fruit shape is not upright, the single fruit weight 1200~1500 grams.

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