Pineapple Nutrition Information

Christopher Columbus was the first person to introduce pineapples to Europe.

Pineapples are grown from the crowns or tops of other pineapples.

They are grown in Hawaii, Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

Pineapples take about eighteen months to grow and are an excellent source of vitamin C.

Lipids
Fatty acids, total saturated	g	0.151	0.027
4:0	g	0.000	0.000
6:0	g	0.000	0.000
8:0	g	0.000	0.000
10:0	g	0.000	0.000
12:0	g	0.000	0.000
14:0	g	0.000	0.000
16:0	g	0.090	0.016
18:0	g	0.052	0.009
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated	g	0.227	0.040
16:1 undifferentiated	g	0.014	0.003
18:1 undifferentiated	g	0.212	0.038
20:1	g	0.000	0.000
22:1 undifferentiated	g	0.000	0.000
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated	g	0.689	0.123
18:2 undifferentiated	g	0.396	0.071
18:3 undifferentiated	g	0.293	0.052
18:4	g	0.000	0.000
20:4 undifferentiated	g	0.000	0.000
20:5 n-3	g	0.000	0.000
22:5 n-3	g	0.000	0.000
22:6 n-3	g	0.000	0.000
Cholesterol	mg	0.000	0.000
Phytosterols	mg	28.320	5.040
Amino acids
Tryptophan	g	0.024	0.004
Threonine	g	0.057	0.010
Isoleucine	g	0.061	0.011
Leucine	g	0.090	0.016
Lysine	g	0.118	0.021
Methionine	g	0.052	0.009
Cystine	g	0.009	0.002
Phenylalanine	g	0.057	0.010
Tyrosine	g	0.057	0.010
Valine	g	0.076	0.013
Arginine	g	0.085	0.015
Histidine	g	0.042	0.008
Alanine	g	0.080	0.014
Aspartic acid	g	0.269	0.048
Glutamic acid	g	0.212	0.038
Glycine	g	0.080	0.014
Proline	g	0.061	0.011
Serine	g	0.118	0.021

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