Pineapple
July 17th, 2010 | 
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The pineapple, a native of tropical America and now widely cultivated in all tropical regions of the world.
Bromeliaceae is a land, while many plants in this family are epiphytes (hence the error of the designer of “Tarzan of the Apes King” who grew the pineapple in the trees).
The leaves are large, jagged, spiny, blue-green rather dark inflorescence leads to a particular fruit, a coenocarpe.
There is an association of fruit with the same inflorescence and floral stem spiny bracts that become very fleshy.
The pineapple, dark green when not ripe, turns yellow-orange or greenish-brown and very fragrant when ripe.
Chemical Composition and Properties
The fruit is rich in sugars at maturity: 10-15% mono-and disaccharides;
there are also organic acids and vitamins:
Vitamin C, 40 mg per 100g (or as much as oranges)
and vitamin B1, 0.08 mg per 100 g.
The aroma is due to a complex mixture of aliphatic compounds.
In the ripe fruit and the stem there is a mixture of proteolysis enzymes (see glossary), and bromelain (bromelain).
They are glycoprotein structurally similar to papain (papaya or, carica papaya).
These molecules are activated by reducing agents, inhibited by oxidants and metals and destroyed by cooking.
Bromelain has anti-inflammatory and anti-exudative which are undoubtedly related to its interaction in the metabolism of protein compounds that initiate the inflammatory process.
In vitro there is also a power antiaggrégant platelet (see Glossary) and fibrinolytic.
Uses
The pineapple is a delicious fruit first, bringing refreshing and natural sugars and vitamins.
It is eaten raw, cooked and not dried, in jams or “chutney”;
it is mixed with other fruits in salads, but also relates to meat, fish or vegetables in particular Asian cuisine.
Pacific people use small pieces of pineapple and other plants in the manufacture of necklaces or crowns odoriferous.
You can tenderize the meat by letting it marinate 2-3 hours in a mixture of oil, lemon juice and slices of fresh pineapple (bromelain is destroyed in cooking)
* The purified extracts and concentrates of bromelain are a good indication in post-traumatic edema and to reduce cellulite closets and can associate them with antibiotics
(Better penetration into sites of infection?)
* They are also recommended in the secretory digestive deficiencies in combination with other enzymatic extracts (including pancreatic).
More commonly, fresh pineapple is a good remedy for indigestion banal (overload), so it’s a perfect dessert.
It can be replaced by homeopathic tincture (see glossary)
1 D, dye pineapple: 50 drops 1-2 times a day.
Beware, though the pineapple peel before eating, the “eyes” a bit tricky at the periphery of the fruit injured oral mucosa may cause in some people, sores very painful. Finally, the green pineapple is unpalatable, it is a known abortifacient in tropical countries.
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