The Pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a plant family of the bromeliads, native to South America. It is a perennial, low-bearing and hard leaves lanceolate, up to a meter long, which bears fruit once every three years producing a unique fragrant and sweet fruit, much appreciated in gastronomy, being, all from Latin America more successful than in Europe

Features:
Although most of the bromeliads are epiphytes, Pineapple A. comosus is a perennial plant, terrestrial, apparently acaulescent, with a basal rosette of stiff leaves, sessile, lanceolate, closely intertwined, with the margins provided with short spines, 30 to 100 cm long, are slightly concave, to convey water rainwater into the rosette

Its fruit contains:
Vitamins: Vitamin C, B1, B6, B9 (folic acid) and some E.
Minerals: Potassium, Magnesium, Iodine, Copper, Manganese
Citric acid, malic acid, oxalic acid, enzyme bromelain.
Its aroma is due to ethyl acetate.

Properties:
Directions: It proteolytic, digestive: Pineapple (bromelain) is a digestive ferment comparable to pepsin and papain. Anti-inflammatory, hypolipidemic, antiplatelet. Diuretic, vitamins, high nutritional value. Extension agent, detergent sores. Hiposecretoras Indicated for dyspepsia, rheumatism, arthritis, gout, urolithiasis and arteriosclerosis. Bronchitis, emphysema, asthma, cystic fibrosis. In topical use: cleaning wounds and trophic ulcers. The heart of pineapple has been advocated as an adjuvant in slimming diets, by their fiber content, with satiety and mild laxative action.