In this method, you submerge a dried pineapple stem in a cup of water so it grows roots before planting. This method skips the rooting step and the pineapple crown (the top with the leaves ...

A ripe pineapple will also tend to be yellow rather ... Kim McCosker, author of the cookbook series Four Ingredients, said the checking the stem can help indicate how ripe the fruit is.

Bromelain is an enzyme mixture extracted from the stem or fruit of the pineapple plant Ananas comosus. Healers have used these enzymes for hundreds of years in many ways. Now, retailers sell ...