#culinary uses
- Pineapple — An exotic herbaceous plant from the Bromeliaceae family, with long, rigid, and spiky leaves, native to tropical South America; the fruit of this plant, cylindrical or ovoid in shape, covered with a scaly, tough rind and topped with a crown of green leaves. Its flesh is yellow, highly juicy, sweet-tart, and aromatic, widely consumed fresh, canned, or as juice, and recognized for its high content of vitamin C and bromelain.