Pineapple

High school (ages 12+)
Food & Cooking

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/pineapple

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the scientific classification?Kingdom: Plantae, Order: Bromeliales, Family: Bromeliaceae, Genus: Ananas, Species: A. comosus
2. What is the primary active compound?Bromelain, a complex mixture of proteolytic enzymes with anti-inflammatory and digestive properties
3. Why does a pineapple have many "eyes"?Each eye on a pineapple’s skin is actually a separate fruitlet that joined together to make one big fruit. The plant’s flowers grow in a spiral, and their ovaries fuse to form the pineapple.
4. How do pineapples grow and spread?The pineapple plant is about 1.5 meters tall and wide. It only flowers and fruits once before it dies, but it can keep growing new plants from its suckers and slips so farmers can keep getting more fruit.

Sorosis: A type of multiple fruit formed from the fusion of many individual fruitlets originating from a cluster of flowers.
Proteolytic Enzyme: An enzyme that catalyzes the breakdown of proteins into smaller peptides or amino acids.
Monocarpic: A plant that flowers and fruits only once during its lifetime, then dies.