1. Where are pineapple grown?
Pineapple is widely grown in Asia , South Central America and Africa. In Asia, The most growing countries are Thailand,Philippines,Malaysia,China, and India.
2. Which pineapples are suitable for making pineapple tins
‘Cayenne’
‘Smooth Cayenne’or ‘Cayenne’, ‘Cayena Lisa’ in Spanish (often known in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Thailand as ‘Sarawak’ or ‘Kew’) was selected and cultivated by Indians in Venezuela long ago and introduced from Cayenne (French Guyana) in 1820. It is the most important cultivar from this group. More than 70% of the pineapple grown both for canning and fresh fruit in the world is from this cultivar.
Cayenne pineapple features shallow eyes, orange rind, yellow flesh, low fiber, juiciness and rich mildly acid flavor. All those advantages make it good for canning. Moreover the cayenne pineapple has sufficient fiber for firm slices and cubes as well as excellent flavor.
3. When was the first pineapple machine made
In 1911, James Dole of Dole pineapple fame went to a Hawaiian designer named Henry Ginaca. He asked for a machine that could do all that. Ginaca provided the first so-called “Ginaca Machine” that year. With Ginaca’s creation, pineapple through-flow jumped to 50 a minute.
In 2005, Bway has made the automatic pineapple peeling and coring machine. The machine can peel pineapple 500pcs per hour, Just one man to handle it. From then on, the canned pineapple industry become different, it can process more pineapples, decrease post-harvest loss.
