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Old Oct 7, 2025 | 7:11 pm
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Originally Posted by philemer
Then how do you know if it's ripe (juicy and ready to eat)? Smell? I've always bought them when most of the green color changes to yellow and always been happy.
Look for the eyes of the pineapple to be relatively uniform in size from the base to the top, that indicates the pineapple was picked at maturity but never any soft or mushy spots.
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