Pineapple: Fresh vs Canned?

I have been eating pineapple since I was very young. It has become one of my favorite fruits. It is a very sweet fruit that I have been enjoying with meals and snacks for quite some time. In years past, I have always enjoyed a fresh pineapple from the grocery store; however, in my more recent college days, I have been resorting to the more convenient canned pineapple. Canned pineapple is a convenient alternative, but is it really an equally nutritious choice?

Fresh pineapple is a delicious fruit that when ripe is deep yellow in color, and has very sweet, sour taste. Its counterpart, canned pineapple, generally tends not to be as pure yellow in color, and also tends to be more liquefied. Additionally, canned pineapple has a much more sugary, sweet taste, and less of a sour taste. This comparison also holds true for smell; canned pineapple generally smells more like the sugary juice it is stored in. Even though the taste isn't there with canned pineapple it is still a nutritious alternative.

Fresh pineapple is one of the more nutritious fruits containing many vitamins and nutrients. Pineapple aso has been found to contain nutrients that act as anti-inflammatory reagents, according to Dr. Andrew Weil. Canned pineapple; however, isn't considered to be quite as nutritious. It still has anti-inflammatory properties, yet it loses major vitamins when it is canned. According to the American Dietetic Association, major vitamins, like vitamin C, are lost due to heating processes when pineapple is canned. Canned pineapple also contains higher levels of sugars, and it contains more calories. Canned pineapple doesn't quite compare with fresh pineapple on a nutritional level, yet convenience has motivated me to switch.

I switched from fresh pineapple to canned pineapple when the convenience began to outweigh the nutritional value. In college, without a vehicle, it is too time consuming to go to a local grocery store to buy fresh fruit. It is much more convenient to buy canned pineapple from the small, nearby campus grocery store: Carson's Carryout. I prefer to eat fresh pineapple based on both taste and nutrition, and I plan to resume eating fresh pineapple in the future. But for now canned pineapple's marginal benefit, convenience, outweighs its marginal cost, lack of nutrition, effecting my switch from consuming more fresh pineapple to more canned pineapple.