By When we first heard about cotton candy grapes, we thought the internet was pranking our candy-loving hearts. How could such a magical fruit exist? To our shock they are very real—and we immediately set out to get our hands on a bushel. Now another strange fruit has arrived: the pink pineapple.
While they've been in development for over 12 years, only now are companies like Del Monte and Dole able to start selling the genetically modified, albeit insanely pretty, fruit in stores. They even have their own patent under the fruit-producing giant Del Monte.
Keep in mind that the FDA has already given them its stamp of approval, explaining: The pineapples were simply "engineered to produce lower levels of the enzymes already in conventional pineapple that convert the pink pigment lycopene to the yellow pigment beta carotene. Lycopene is the pigment that makes tomatoes red and watermelons pink, so it is commonly and safely consumed."
But they'll look more like the below photo featuring pale pink flesh, and not the doctored images that show off bright pink outer skins.
In development since 2005, the fruit was given the Food and Drug Administration's seal of approval in December 2016, NBC News reported.
Fittingly, they're known as the Rosé (cute, huh?) and are made rose-colored by adding lycopene, the substance that gives tomatoes their ruby hue. What's more, Del Monte claims the fruit is made sweeter from this addition, proposing a new label that reads "extra sweet pink flesh pineapple."
We're pretty sure these are going to be all the rage this summer, especially as a garnish to frozen rosé cocktails and pink piña coladas.
