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It’s an old wives tale that pulling the leaves from a pineapple’s crown will tell you if it’s ripe or not. How can you really tell? The truth is that the pineapple ripens from the middle to the outside which means the fruit is ripe on the inside before the outside shell begins to turn color. So, the pineapple can be ripe and ready to eat and still be green on the outside. In our pineapple fields we know how old the fruit is in each parcel of the field. When it’s 20-21 weeks old, we sample the fruit to measure the sugar level and observe the internal color. (more…)