Pineapple is a very tasty and healthy fruit. It is called a natural fat burner and advise consuming people who want to lose weight. Pineapple has a property to dive, even if he was already ripped. Few people know, but green fruit can harm health: cause a stomach disorder, raise acidity, develop heartburn and bloating. In our article we will tell you how to bring pineapple to ripeness and enjoy the sweet taste of a healthy fruit.
Determine the level of ripeness
Buying pineapple in the supermarket, always need to examine him thoroughly and determine how much fruit is doser. After all, the sweetness of exotic fetus will depend on it. In just a few minutes, you can understand the degree of his ripeness.
- slimming the fruit at the base (a lightweight sweet smell must come from the pineapple, if the aroma does not feel at all, it means a green fruit. Avoid buying a fetus, from which a medicinal or other specific smell is most likely the fruit has been grown artificially);
- pineapple peel should have a yellow color (green shade says that the fruit was torn offshore);
- spend your hand on the skin if you feel relief, it means the fruit is completely ripe;
- pay attention to the leaves of pineapple, they should not be pale salad shades (the leaves of the ripe fetus should be green, and the tops are slightly dried);
- stop small leaflets if it is easily succumbed, pineapple will be ripe;
- slightly push on the fruit, a divent fruit is slightly soft.
Pineapple pineapple at home
If you bought pineapple, spent all the ways to assess the ripeness of an exotic fruit and realized that he was green, do not rush to get upset! After all, there are attorneys how to ripen pineapple at home.
- 1 Method - Pick out pineapple in one layer of food film and put it in a warm place. Make sure that the fruit hit the straight sun rays, to withstand the fetus for 24 hours and proceed to cut it;
- 2 Method - Turn the pineapple and put it on the foliage, on the theory of sugar, distribute all over the fetus, handle the fruit in this position 24 hours in a warm place without drafts;
- 3 Method - Place the pineapple in the plastic container with a tightly closing lid and add apples or bananas with the peel, the fruit will start to highlight ethylene, thereby increasing the degree of ripeness of the exotic fetus (the exact time of the ripening cannot be specified, simply check the pineapple every day);
- 4 Method - Turn the pineapple to the newspaper paper and place it near the battery (the method is suitable in the heating season);
- 5 Method - Turn the pineapple in the terry towel and remove it into the closet (about 5 days), the fruit must ripen in a dark place;
- 6 Method - If pineapple was bought in the summer, then it is possible to increase its ripeness, moving the fruit to the balcony, slightly sprayed with water room temperature and leave outdoors for 5 days.
Please note that the taste of dose pineapples with an artificial way will differ from ripe fruits. It will not be so sweet, but it will become soft, more gentle and will not harm health.
Preparing green pineapple
The cut pineapple is no longer possible to artificially ripening. But what to do with this product? Do not rush to despair and throw it into a trash can. We will tell how to cook Green Pineapple so that it turns out to taste the same as ripe fruit.
- 1 option - prepare pineapples in the oven. This method will not only make the fruit sweet and juicy, but also help get rid of bromelain contained in pineapple, which can cause irritation of the mucous membrane and throat. Separate the pineapple with the way for you and cut it into the rings. Stand off the foil, lay out the prepared fruit and prepare 10-15 minutes. At a temperature of 160 degrees.
- 2 options are boiled pineapples. Slices of fruit boil with the addition of juice, which has been separated during cutting. Before using boiled pineapple cool.
Now you know what to do if you purchased green pineapple. The cut frown is recommended to be stored in a refrigerator, in a plastic container or wrapped in food.