If you’re trying to get more fruit in your diet, there comes a point where the options’ faff levels start getting a bit too high.
Apples, bananas, oranges, pears, peaches, blueberries and strawberries are all nice and easy to prep and eat, requiring minimal fuss and maybe just a quick rinse.
If you want to get something more exotic on the go, you have to prepare yourself for a bit more resistance. If you’re a mango newbie, for example, efficiently getting flesh out from under the skin and around the stone is easier said than done.
Few whole foods are as unwieldy as a pineapple, though. These hulking fruits with wild hairdos taste delicious and they’re absolutely jammed full of nutrition, but it’s all too easy to buy one and leave it on the side without finding the time or the will to carve it up.
If that’s your experience of the not-so-humble pineapple, we’ve got a hack to share courtesy of Meghan Markle that could make pineapples much accessible and fun to eat.
The hack didn’t make the cut for season one of With Love, Meghan on Netflix, but it’s found daylight on Markle’s Instagram page.
“There was so much goodness on Season 1 of ‘With Love, Meghan’ on @netflix that didn’t make it in, there just wasn’t enough time!” reads the Instagram caption.
“This scene with sweet Randi Karin (@soulrefugespa) is especially fun as you think about summer entertaining tips and tricks.”
Considering how nifty the trick is, it’s a surprise it didn’t make the cut for the show.
In the clip, Markle takes a pineapple and a small knife, then inserts the knife in the seams of the pineapple’s trademark segmented skin.
After running the knife around one of those segments, she then pulls gently on the little tufty protrusion common to each segment and wins herself a little pyramidal pineapple mouthful.
“To make the perfect little bite, you follow the wedge,” Markle says as she delicately preps her morsel. “When nature has given you all the cues on how to have the perfect little taste of something…”
“How fun is that? I love it,” said Karin as Markle tucked in.
It’s definitely a neat and tidy way to get at some pineapple, although it might not be the most efficient way to harvest the fruit’s innards. If nothing else, there’s something very satisfying about the little nodes being pulled out as though it was always the way to do it.
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Rachael Davis