UPDATE: Now you can buy it online. |
In a nutshell, this is a variety of pineapple unlike the yellow kind: sweeter, low acid, and the core so tender it's fine eating. Much more detail at the link above.
Incidentally, last week there was a rather comical dispute in The Garden Island (Kauai's local paper) setting the record straight that Sugarloaf Pineapple is not GMO. Recently a very confused gentleman felt obliged to write a letter to the editor saying the by virtue of being a different variety of pineapple it was therefore GMO. The pineapple farmers who actually know something about the subject wrote in response correcting this misinformation. Then on April Fool's day (I'm not making this up) the same fellow writes back admitting he was wrong but somehow concluded that he was right anyway.
Several decades
ago Sugarloaf pineapple was discovered naturally occurring in the pineapple fields of Lanai. I think we can all agree that nobody was doing any genetic
engineering that long ago, and if anyone was, how likely was it that they were working
in a pineapple field in Lanai?
Seriously though, the important point about GMO is that it
creates
organisms by human tinkering that are impossible to achieve by hybridizing
or as natural variations. Sugarloaf Pineapple is anything but that,
it's perfectly natural, and as we all agree, quite delicious pineapple.
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