Re: edible pineapple varieties
I'm not sure about your pineapple, but we down here in Ecuador still have some of the original varities (think the native stock from which all pineapples come) and thus grow both white and yellow-fleshed fruits, and on occasion I run across a white fruit with a blush of pink in it near the core; these are smaler, and I consider them to be among the best pineapples I've ever tasted.
This said, unless it's for a big plantation, we just refer to domestic pineapples as "White Flesh" and "Gold Flesh" and make larger distinction between seeded and seedless fruits. What Chiquita grows down here are called Kona Gold; they're a hybrid between the Hawaiian Gold and the white Kona Sugarloaf.
The dependably seedless pineapples are all of one yellow variety (which one, I'm not certain) and are grown in specially enclosed fields to prevent the hummingbirds from getting at them. Other than that, it's hit and miss.
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