How Do Pineapples Eat Us Back?
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2021
- The pineapple. Sweet, juicy, and kind of painful. What is it about this tropical fruit that seems to bite us back?
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"So don't down 10 straight pineapples just yet" there goes my weekend plans
😂
There goes my life goals
The whole weekend? Those are rookie numbers. Speedrun that. Take 20 minutes.
Ikr…what a bunch of killjoys!
If you go 88 mph, you go back to the future. Coincidentally, pianos have 88 keys. Those two numbers are the same number, but different units. Ying-Yang.
pineapple is my favorite fruit. On a cruise with my family when I was in middleschool, I had my first prolonged experience with all-you-can-eat pineapple. I ate so much I left my tongue raw and after a few days, I was barely able to taste anything for the rest of the cruise lol
That's hilarious, lol!
Got to cook it first.
I did this to myself just recently and realized my mouth was burning so I swished some baking soda mixed in water to neutralize the acid and halt the damage. It's not a cure, but it helps a lot.
I hope you have been to Costa Rica
Yikes!
The most astounding thing I've learned about the pineapple is that it's a bromeliad, a very interesting sort of plant that doesn't need roots to sustain itself. While not at all parasitic, they can grow in trees, rocks, crappy soil, anywhere their leaves can catch and hold water.
Yep! These plants are known as _epiphytes,_ and they're not limited to bromeliads (which also aren't all epiphytic but mostly are)! I'm sure there's a long list, but off the top of my head, a lot of orchids are also epiphytic, and I believe there are also epiphytic ferns. Also, epiphytic bromeliads are highly diverse; some look like pineapple plants, but Spanish moss is one too!
Epiphytic plants have what are known as _aerial_ roots, which are a type of root that's not designed to burrow in soil, but rather to cling to objects in the open air. They do this in part using a protective skin called a velamen.
They're also a kind of adventitious root, which basically means they aren't real roots. They're made from shoot tissue, more similar to stems than actual roots.
Yep, and pineapple farm are so weird, it looks like they are just lying there
Ooh that wonderful fact
All greeting for ur wisdom
RUclips sage
I didn't know it's a bromeliad! I learn about those as a horticulturist when I took care of plants in offices and such. But I didn't know that pineapples were a kind of those! Cool!
nice
It's worth noting that canned pineapple and fruit cup pineapple has been heat treated such that the bromelain no longer functions. It's only *fresh* pineapple that eats you back.
This distinction is also why you can't use fresh pineapple with jello, the bromelain just slices up the gelatin, but canned works fine.
I am allergic to fresh pineapple and can only eat cooked or canned as a result.
Thanks that was super interesting!
Maybe your allergic to the bromeliad
So that' s why canned pineapple felt so weak yet similar to fresh pineapple. Fresh ones taste much better but I can eat more canned pineapple in one setting. That confused me a little bit until now, thanks.
Yup, which is why I can only eat it if it's cooked somehow or as dried fruit.
this is also why you can't make pineapple jello with actual pineapple, and why it makes great meat tenderizer
So pineapple goes on steak?
@@uhohhotdog gammon, a kind of pork steak, tastes good with a slice of pineapple ring on it! ^^
@@uhohhotdog you can certainly add pineapple juice to the sauce that you cook the steak in to make it just that much more tender
Yes, the jello won't gel with fresh pineapple, but it will with canned. Something about the canning process must neutralize the bromelain.
@@marthak1618 probably pasteurized or cooked.
"Battle not with monsters, lest you become a monster, and if you eat the pineapple it also eats you back." -Nietzsche probably
😂
Should be top comment.
Scishow: Pineapples eat you back.
Me: Ah, there it is. The daily reminder that the world I live in is a bleak hellscape.
ah yes, I feel your pain, but he is not a scientist at all, just a talking head reading a script - pineapple on your pizza is fine because it is cooked, as cooking destroys (denatures) the bromelain enzymes - so, pasteurised pineapple drink is fine too.
Even the seemingly mundane is fantastically dark, strange, and wonderful when understood more complexly
@@MyMy-tv7fd Since when was pizza mentioned? You could just say that about any cooked pineapple dish.
To be clear, I only made this comment because I was afraid someone was going to start a pineapple pizza flamewar.
@@syweb2 Did you say PINEAPPLE PIZZA?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Yes but pineapple still taste amazing
Funny how I just finished eating pineapple a couple of hours ago and decided my mouth can’t handle the “acid” burn. Enzyme, huh? I love the things you learn on this show. You have one of the best channels on RUclips.
It's good against high uric acid levels to prevent gout though. I take bromain tablets
Honestly he has at least 2-3 of the best channels. I wonder how many he's up to nowadays.
@@cirana4699 cease
I am the 69th person who liked your comment, and I feel accomplished now!
If you cook the pineapple it doesn't burn you any more
"When Fruits Attack" feels like this should be a SciShow poster lol
Yes!! Gives a whole new meaning to
"Fruit ninja"! 🍍
Definitely this
Well, there is the movie classic “Attack of the Killertomatoes”
@@LetsTakeWalk 👏🤣
@@LetsTakeWalk was just about to go there.
One of the few things I actually learned on an old TV show. On classic Hawaii 5-0 the killer had no fingerprints so they ended up tracking him down at a pineapple processing facility where he worked and then explained that having his hands constantly in contact with the pineapple juice all day while he was cutting them up ate away his ridges.
This reminded me of the tom scott vid, where he tried to pineapple his fingerprints away
@@tanyavondegurechoff3491 man, that one is a classic, along with 2 drums and a cymbal
I mean, while technically that doesn't actually happen (see Tom Scott's ancient video), it's still close enough to not count as cringe I guess
@@tanyavondegurechoff3491 i was just going to say this LMAO
I saw that episode when it first aired in the UK .
Pineapples and peaches are my all-time favorite fruits. But at least peaches aren't playing a game of "who'll digest who first".
The first time I bought a fresh pineapple (as opposed to pre-processed) I ate the whole thing(minus outer skin and leaves) in one sitting, by the end my lips were literally bleeding...worth it.
This comment gets an A for
AaaaaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaAaAAAaaaaaaaAAaAAAaaah!
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Dude if your mouth was bleeding from a simple pineapple you probably have a different problem on your hands
Yeah, my lips sometimes bleed when I eat pineapple, mostly coz it get chapped.
Yup, made the mistake of putting pineapple on my lips for a long period of time as a kid... _shudders_
@@SirFaceFone you poor soul
"How do pineapples eat us back?"
My brain: well well well then let's find out!
thank you patreon, thank you scishow and thank you Hank Green for making wonderful content i enjoy so much! ❤️
All I could think throughout the whole video was, "Let's see whose acid reigns supreme."
🤣🤣🤣 Kind of the universal question…
Yes that Korean Beef
Definitely ours. It's some pretty powerful stuff.
I ended up with bromelain poisoning after a competitive eating of two whole pineapples, as well as a mild stomach ulcer. Enjoy, but not too fast!
@@cactaceous It is some of the worst stomach pain I have ever had, and I have IBD. Never EVER again. 😂
@@cactaceous I guess you could eat some chicken or anything else afterwards, more stomach acid+neutralize some enzymes by itself.
Pineapple is an excellent meat tenderizer. You can use the scraps from after cutting up a fresh one, blend that and pour it onto a meat. I do it with cheap cuts. Works fairly well.
Love the title , scishow is the ONLY clickbate I click lol
It's not clickbait though
@@bikespj22 It is a little bit. The pineapple isn't eating you, or any part of you. It just contains enzymes that break down proteins. So, technically it is clickbait.
ClickBAIT.
Unless you mean something… else. ;)
Same! It helps that they tend to both clarify their title and actually answer the question. It's not just a hook designed to bring views but never gets answered.
This video even went for it in the first 20 seconds!
@@emmettturner9452 um
Well, I guess I've been kinda saved from pineapples' hunger by mixing it with passion fruit and mango when I want a tasty juice... seriously. Try it. Best juice ever.
that combination of fruits + your green bird photo tells me you must be brazilian 🇧🇷
As a dentist, I can vouch that already for decennia, we recommend the eating of fresh pineapple to cure aphts - sores. It helps at least in some of the cases, and without the negative sideeffects of some man-made cures. This is the first time I learn of the - or at least possible - explanation. great!
Watching this while eating a pineapple is so much fun
I read the title and I literally said “Hold Up!”
I worked in a pizza joint where making pineapple pizza’s and constantly dipping my hands into containers of diced pineapple for hours, taught me first hand how corrosive the stuff can be.
What happened to your second hand?
But aren't those pineapples processed?
"pizza"
@@nunyabiznes33 Probably depends on the pizza place. They're not necessarily much harder to prepare fresh than some other ingredients, so I could definitely see a good mom'n'pops pizza place using fresh pineapple
@@aiko9393 well the second hand's just fine, but the first hand turned into pulp
I love pineapple. It’s one of my favorite fruits and could eat it every day, but I always thought I had a mild allergy towards it because it really harms my mouth and throat whenever I eat it. Now I know it’s not me. It’s the pineapple’s fault. Lol. That hasn’t stopped me, though. I believe the benefits for my health compensate for the discomfort; besides I just love it’s sweet & tart flavor.
Guga has been talking about these "emzymes" in pineapples for a while.
Who?
@@rick-deckard A food RUclipsr
Went to the comments to post "Guga Foods" and...
He points out that if you leave a steak in a pineapple puree for more than 2 hours it turns to mush (1 1/2 hrs is "magic")...I never thought about what it would do to "long-pig"...
Good to know.
Wasn't expecting to see Guga being mentioned here of all places.
@@rick-deckard search RUclips for Guga Foods pineapple...all will be revealed. My other comment summarizes what Captain Nemo is referring to.
Dad tried to make ham with pineapple for christmas but because he used fresh pineapple that year the ham turned into pulped cat food in texture.
😂😂 so gross
DIY Spam
Love the thumbnail. And some real interesting facts today. Thanks SciShow
I remember reading somewhere (forgot the source, so take with a grain of salt) that people who have a habit of chewing their hair can eat pineapple to keep the swallowed hair from clumping in their stomach, since human trypsin doesn't break down keratin but bromelain does.
Bromelain definitely does hydrolyze keratin!
@@laurieparis2203 interesting, NexoBrid (a bromelain based protease gel for burn victims) explicitly can’t. You are supposed to remove keratin before applying NexoBrid, which is the main reason why you have to pump patients full of pain killers before applying some gel.
@@Philemaphobia hi Phil! Turns out you're correct, I need to check the internet for the au courant info before stating my dated opinions as my knowledge is... ummm ... ancient? Keratin is one tough cookie! Seems like many common proteinases don't touch it. Thx for the correction! Always love to learn something new! 🌱
@@laurieparis2203 haha, i am no specialist either, just hitting up some (German, my native language)sources and found a manual and I thought it would be improbable to use a bromelain based product but then x the keratin resolving effect. Question we are left with is: what else will help you digesting human hairballs?
Sees click bait title, clicks click bait, watches click bait video, learns it is not click bait, feels confused.
BUT WHEN ITS COOKED ON PIZZA WITH CANADIAN BACON ITS SO GOOD
I was raised to JUST SAY NO!
(Picks up "🍕🚫🍍" flag, goes to other side of field and begins waving it overzealously to rally his camp together.)
This is the type of content I like from this channel
John, We watch your videos everyday in our AP History Class. Love your work!
I make fruit cups at work, or I *did* until my arms started breaking out in sores after handling pineapples. Thankfully, I don't have to make cups anymore.
Pineapple - the most Metal of fruit
🤘🍍🤘
Coming to a crime drama near you: Pineapple dissolves human body
Sci Fi movie short.
The attack of the pineapple dissolvers.
Man, I've always wondered this, thank you!
Ah the joy of living in the tropics and not treating the pineapple as an exotic fruit and understanding Bromelain, just watching this video for fun
Attack of the Killer Pineapples!!
Pineapple: The snack that eats you back.
Yesssssssssss
I love everything about this video!!!!!
You can make a very tropical ceviche with raw pineapple because of the enzymes, no need for citrus or vinegar.
I always thought this was just some mild allergic reaction that I was having, interesting to know that it was actually the fruit fighting back.
Thumbnail: terrifying
Title: 20/10 clicked instantly
I love pineapple. It may be my favorite food on the planet. There's a restaurant nearby that used to serve pineapple steaks grilled with cayenne pepper. They were amazing.
All this time since childhood, I was told I was just weird when I talked about how pineapple burnt my mouth, but I still ate it because it was so delicious.
If only I could show those kids now and tell them who's laughing now, who's the dummy now? 😹
Put salt on it to neutralize the acid
@@wheredaboof6492 no, I don't like salt on my fruit. I just blend it in a smoothie with bananas, mango and strawberries that helps.
I don't know about you, but I'm so sick of these spam sex sites always popping up everywhere.
@@Catnipfumar yep they follow individual people's comments. You don't have to put a lot of salt for it to work on the acid, makes it sweeter ironically.
@@wheredaboof6492 wait, I take back my last statement partially the only fruit I think I really like with the little bit of salt on it would be watermelon only because that's what we did growing up as kids.
Then you got the controversial fruits like tomatoes and avocados, which, as a kid, I would say, if I'm eating, one of them it counts as both a fruit and a vegetable. 😹
@@Catnipfumar I ate tomatoes like apples as a kid, I've never tried salted watermelon :o
I used to be allergic to pineapple. I grew out of the allergy, and now it's my favorite fruit. I can eat a whole pineapple no problem now. And my record is 3 & 1/2 in an afternoon.
I gotta say, the thumbnail for this video is next-level creepy and awesomely cool at the same time.
That thumbnail is perfect
This makes a lot of sense since I've heard pineapple also helps with digesting protein, making it great for shakes :)
What destroyed my mouth was eating a handful of Warheads back in the day.
Similar effect, different chemical. Powdered citric acid hurts so good...
the thumbnail gives me chills.
"but whatever they offer you, don't feed the plants!"
So, stomach and pineapple have something in common: they eat you back!
The day I discovered fresh pineapple the day I discovered it was worth the pain 😁
Very interesting. So thanks !
This is why I always tell people Pineapple is the most metal fruit. \m/
Just glad I have a short informative video to point those people to for a more scientific explanation.
so that's why after eating a whole pineapple in one sitting, the edges of my mouth, where my lips connect, got red and had a raw feeling to them
I've never had this happen to me, its news that pineapples make you sore. I do however, experience that with eating apples. My entire mouth hurts when eating them.
@@adambell8217 you could possibly be allergic to apples
@@lavenderwaffles4047 maybe
You're supposed to cut the outside off and not try to shove the whole thing in your mouth. It's easier to peel and eat that way.
@Balto the Wolf no?!
Craziest part is the current pineapple we have is domesticated. The actual wild pineapple had to be boiled and could only be chewed, imagine what type of harsher enzymes it may have had.
Well, humans also eat chilis which most mammals would flee from so yeah, guess we are crazy in a way.
Harsh enough to deter ancient animals from munching on them. Probably killed a few dinosaurs if you follow them back in time.
This justifies fruit ninja in my mind
That makes a lot of sense. I went to a pineapple plantation, and they'd often water stuff down, or make sure people had something else to drink after. Whatever they do to make Dole whip, seems to be not as bad, but I haven't found a way to replicate that.
And what does pineapple mixed with vodka do? Does this include the throat? Asking for a friend.
ACIDx2
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I'm guessing the soviet Russia meme had something to do with you thinking of vodka. Pineapple eat YOU
I hope the pineapples doesn't eat my pizza too fast! (Until the cooking process turn down bromelain)
As far as I've read, the cooking process does break down the bromelain.
Fascinating!
I REALLY want a copy of that pineapple-shark image in the thumbnail.
Pineapple tears up my guts. I figure either the bromaline doesn't break down in my stomach or maybe I am allergic to a break down product. If the pineapple is cooked it doesn't hurt my guts, though.
Pineapple is also an allergen. People who are allergic to it often also have trouble with kiwifruit, strawberry, and birch, so if those bother you too it has chances of being related.
Makes sense as cooking pineapple breaks down the bromelain.
@@laurieparis2203 but it can also break down histamines.
@@Philemaphobia interesting, thx, didn't know that!
what, I shouldn't eat birch?
Pineapple is my favorite fruit.
I hope this doesn't make me a bit of a cannibal.
Well, if it helps you feel better, the enzymes in your saliva are constantly eating away at your mouth and throat. Turns out we just go "blind" to the taste of our own mouth.
Also, your stomach acid is constantly eating at your stomach lining. Your body is just constantly replacing it.
So, yeah. In a scientific sense you are constantly trying to digest yourself.
I think you need to be the same species for it to be considered cannibalism. So a) you're fine or b) pineapples are typing things on the internet which is probably bad but kinda cool.
Simple solution.
After you slice up the pineapple, lightly salt it and cover it with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. That salt breaks down the enzymes and make it much more sweeter and less acidic.
Sign me up for a pineapple clinical trial. I love it so lol
there was this time when I was eating this super ultra-extra delicious pinapple. It was so good that even tho I was feeling my mouth melting I just kept going... then I started to bleed profusely and had to stop haha
Good times.
I will never ever ask myself why anyone would care to try fugu, when there are people on this planet enjoying getting eaten by a fruit that looks like a grenade and bites you back.
Unpopular opinion: I don't like pineapple
Also this video reminded me of a certain Tom Scott video
You don´t like pineapple, you say? Well I say Thank You, because that means there´s more for the rest of us.
This is interesting!
This makes me feel for Tom Scott even more back during his insane pineapple experiment.
In the theme song for Spongebob Squarepants it says he is "absorbent and yellow and porous."
It's because he is being digested by the pineapple he lives in!!!!
I still won’t stop chugging pineapple juice >:)
Love it! My favorite fruit just got even more interesting 😄
Technically not an apple and doesn't grow from a tree. Someone a long time ago confused it with the pine-cone and now here we are.
Bet they were surprised when they tried to eat a pinecone and cottage cheese salad. When pinecones start looking good you have a pineapple problem. Or maybe other problems too.
I've never liked that feeling after eating pineapple, now if feel justified!!
Day 96 of asking for the return of Scishow Quizshow
As if pineapples weren't already chaotic enough!
I have experienced that raw burning sense personally!
Makes me wonder why Pineapple evolved to contain bromelain
Insecticide, same with Papaya
To fight off the dinosaurs. It's an ancient plant.
Day 69420 without sex: I ate pineapple to remind me of what's it's like to be eaten out...
Well, as you're admitting to being over 190 years old... you go girl😛🤮
The subject of this video reminds me of the David Altmejd's exhibit The Flux and the Puddle where there's an anthropomorphic pineapple
A fresh one just made my inner lips bleed and tongue burn worse than a pepper so I decided to search this. Totally worth it.
Doesn't cooking the pineapple break down the bromelain? That's why you can put cooked pineapple into jello but not raw..
One of two things happen if you use fresh pineapple in Jello. The first and most common effect is the gelatin won't set, if it does the pineapple bits are surrounded by digested Jello that take on a rather unpleasant, unappetizing brown goo.
Um no. Use canned and no problems.
Pineapples are also spicy! For some people.
If this is you, pineapples aren't spicy. It's an allergy.
this explains everything. i can only eat a little bit before it starts to tear up my mouth.
That thumbnail will be in my dreams tonight... Thanks
Same! Lmao!
Here's a fun fact: there are other fruits in the same genus as pineapple that have much higher concentrations of bromelain
oh my god...
Ah so that explains the burning I get in my mouth when I consume my favorite fruit
so that's where the itchy sensation come from
There is also a study that shows it's good for eye floaters, too.
I love it when people learn that plants don't like being eaten. Its almost like they aren't fast enough to run away so they have other ways to make things that eat them regret it. Pineapple enzymes plus the rough exterior equals a bad time for an animal biting into them from the outside as it makes gums bleed easily. Too bad they didn't plant for knives.
an exotic fruit with multiple applications.
I've found that a mix of tropical fruit has a bit of a weird feeling at the back of my throat, but I chalk that up to texture, and don't remember just pineapples feeling weird. Vanilla milk (yes, that exists apparently, and I also drank some caramel milk at home for a bit before I defaulted back to soda) back in my middle school might have been my favorite milk if not for it also feeling weird going down.
Yeah, that thumbnail won't be in someone's nightmares.
You bite the pine, the pine bites back, my man
aren’t some pitcher plants related to bromaliads? maybe they started off digesting insects when they hold water and insects fall into them and then they digest them with the enzymes. and then the leaves became more specialized due to selective pressure. it’s possible the digestive enzymes started off as a defensive mechanism. Idk just hypothesising 🤔
Good call. I always suspected that it was because the pineapple evolved from flesh digesters and as a defense mechanism later in their evolution. Think about how old this kind of plant is, it wouldn't be inconceivable that late dinosaurs munched on them. And reduced them to mush.
I bet the kiwi has this flesh eating superpower too. At least it has with me. It can burn my tongue like crazy!
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