Once a symbol of luxury and wealth, pineapples are now as common a sight at supermarkets as a bag of carrots or bin of grubby potatoes.
Britain consumes over 112,000 tonnes of fresh pineapple annually, with consumption steadily rising according to Tesco.
And that’s not including the chunks of the exotic fruit that come tinned or frozen.
Previous polling suggests that pineapple – which takes three years to grow and is actually made up of dozens of tiny fruits that are fused together – is the nation’s second favourite fruit, after strawberries, with the market now estimated to be worth nearly 100million.
And it’s
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