Research conducted at the University of Hawaii indicated that waxing the pineapple (not including the crown leaves) to create an internal carbon dioxide concentration between 5 and 8% reduces incid

It has been shown that concentrations of sugars and organic acids vary among fruitlets and regions of the pineapple fruit.

All the available literature states that pineapples are nonclimacteric.

Many years ago scientists classified fruits into two categories:  climacteric and non-climacteric.  Climacteric fruit usually undergo dramatic changes during "ripening" and these ch