How to choose a ripe pineapple

Step 1. Inspect the pineapple

Ripe pineapple has an oval shape, dry and thick stalk Escape (Sultan) length of 10-12 cm. Eyes - the yellow-brown color with a slightly dried up tips. Between them should be a dark brownish-green or grooves.

Green rind indicates immaturity of the fetus, and brown or burgundy - for its deterioration.

Do not take pineapple with brown spots and whitish furrows. These are signs of rot and mold.

Step 2. Push down and tap

Selecting eyes appetizing fruit, take him in hand. The rind of a ripe pineapple solid and resilient. Pressure-sensitive eyes should prominaetsya and then recover. If pressed, and left a dent, the fruit began to deteriorate. If pineapple coconut harder, he has not yet matured.

Pineapple weighs between 1 and 2 kg.

We took the fruit in his hands and did not feel the weight? You got stale fruit that has already started to dry and thus lose weight. Put him in his place and take a look at another instance.

He found a heavy pineapple, tap it. As with

choosing watermelon, Hollow sound indicates ripeness and juiciness of the fruit. A ringing on the other hand, the immaturity.

Step 3. Rotate Sultan

The shops are often found plucked pineapple. Ostensibly pineapple ripeness can be determined by the inner layer of the shoot. This is not true. For example, a rotten fruit inner layer is separated, too effortlessly.

Much more demonstrative form of sultan. In the mature pineapple dark green escape from the slightly dried up tips. Bright green Sultan says the immaturity of the fetus - the flesh is tough, dry and tasteless. Browned sheets - a sign of spoilage.

Take the Sultan at the base and try a little turn. Give in? You are holding a ripe fruit. Not? Pineapple cut too early. Just do not overdo it: escape ripe pineapple easily off his hands, and to you it is probably already tried to do other buyers.

Step 4. smell

Keep pineapple at arm's length. You feel pleasant sweet flavor? You chose a great fruit!

Green pineapple smells, gives a spoiled rotten.

Can pineapple ripen at home

Pineapples are grown in Central and South America, and Southeast Asia. Harvesting in plantations occur three times a year. And, unlike bananas, pineapples do not reach after cutting.

Unripe pineapple flesh burns the lips, mouth knits and can cause stomach upset.

Pointless suspended upside down fruit, to keep it warm or cold. If pineapple cut green, sweetness and juiciness of it does not give.

How to store pineapple

Ripe fruit is recommended Keep refrigerated. Pack a pineapple in a paper bag and put it in a drawer for vegetables.

Keep pineapple in the refrigerator for more than a week.

To extend shelf life, peel, chop and freeze the pulp. In the freezer pineapple will lie quietly two or three months.

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