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Bromelain is destroyed by canning. Only fresh pineapple carries it.

One cup covers more than a day's manganese, a mineral few people track and most need for bone.

The enzyme is why pineapple after a lamb dinner is more than a habit.

Ānānās came to the Persian table through imported-fruit markets, not local orchards. It's worth knowing for bromelain, a group of protein-digesting enzymes in the fresh flesh and stem. Bromelain has a real clinical record for swelling and may also help a heavy meal go down more easily.

Known to botanists as Ananas comosus.