Magic fruit: The pink pineapple is actually a thing!
| Updated: Mar 2, 2018, 11:00 IST
We bet by now you have heard of cotton candy grapes. Well, when we first heard about it, we thought it was a hoax and someone playing to our gullibility but it finally took us a while to realise that they actually did exist! Well, today, on seeing this fruit, we felt the same way that we felt then. "How could such a magical fruit exist?" we questioned when we saw the pink pineapple! Yes, you read right!
While it's much lesser known than, say, purple potatoes and the aforementioned candy grapes, pink pineapples are actually a thing. So much so that they even have their own patent too under the fruit-producing giant Del Monte. (Because they've been genetically modified). In development in 2005, the fruit was only just given the Food and Drug Administration's seal of approval. So far, Del Monte is the only company to produce pink pineapples, growing them in Costa Rica.
Fittingly, they're known as the Rosé and are made rose-coloured by adding lycopene, the substance that gives tomatoes their ruby hue. What's more, Del Monte claims the fruit is made sweeter from this addition, proposing a new label that reads "extra sweet pink flesh pineapple." Oddly the brand has been keeping this phenomenon mostly under wraps, so the images circulating online have been doctored. So, we're still unsure what they look like but we sure are excited for them to come our way!
While it's much lesser known than, say, purple potatoes and the aforementioned candy grapes, pink pineapples are actually a thing. So much so that they even have their own patent too under the fruit-producing giant Del Monte. (Because they've been genetically modified). In development in 2005, the fruit was only just given the Food and Drug Administration's seal of approval. So far, Del Monte is the only company to produce pink pineapples, growing them in Costa Rica.
Fittingly, they're known as the Rosé and are made rose-coloured by adding lycopene, the substance that gives tomatoes their ruby hue. What's more, Del Monte claims the fruit is made sweeter from this addition, proposing a new label that reads "extra sweet pink flesh pineapple." Oddly the brand has been keeping this phenomenon mostly under wraps, so the images circulating online have been doctored. So, we're still unsure what they look like but we sure are excited for them to come our way!