Pinkglow Pink Pineapples For Easter & Mother’s Day
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A truly delightful gift for any foodie is Fresh Del Monte’s Pinkglow® Pineapple. It looks like a regular pineapple on the outside, but the flesh is rosy pink through and through. Gift it for Easter, Mother’s Day, hostess gifts, or any occasion where delicious, nutritious, low-calorie* fruit is appreciated. This unique, exclusive gift comes with pink presentation packaging that showcases the world’s first and only fresh pink pineapple. Beyond its captivating appearance, the pineapple offers a juicier and less tart (sweeter) flavor than traditional varieties. Fresh Del Monte’s Pinkglow® Pineapple derives its unique pink color from lycopene, a natural pigment and well-known antioxidant found in red-colored produce such as cranberries, grapes, tomatoes, and watermelons. The pineapple was bred to produce lower levels of certain enzymes already in a conventional pineapple. These enzymes convert the pink pigment lycopene to the yellow pigment beta carotene that creates the color of traditional pineapple flesh. Less of those enzymes leads to pink pineapple. After 16 years of development, Fresh Del Monte Produce released Pinkglow pineapples in 2020: a singular, luxurious fruit. The pineapples grow on a select farm in the south-central region of Costa Rica, which has the ideal soil and climate to produce them. For more information including online purchasing and delicious recipes, head to PinkglowPineapple.com. The fruit is available for shipping across the U.S.† and Canada, nicely packaged. You also can find Del Monte’s Pinkglow Pineapple at select local retailers, starting at $14.99. Until the broadscale cultivation of pineapples in the 1900s, a pineapple brought to Europe from South America was very costly. It was a gift given to kings and nobles. Pineapples remained so uncommon and coveted that King Charles II of England posed with one in an official portrait (see the portrait). For lesser wealthy mortals, a pineapple centerpiece on a formal dining table said much about a family’s affluence and rank in society. Guests were delighted just to see a pineapple. It wasn’t eaten. The fruits were so expensive and so much in demand that confectioners would often rent them by the day! |
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________________ *A cup of pineapple has 82 calories and delivers 131% of your daily value of vitamin C. †Pineapple cannot be shipped to Hawaii.
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