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Colorful Foods for a Healthy New Year

Showcasing Colorful Produce for a Bright New Year
The beginning of the year means New Year’s resolutions and a fresh commitment to healthy foods and eating. Many choose to start their new year off right by making a change in their diet. Consumers are open to trying self-improvement trends, and new brands look less intimidating. Along with health labels, bright and colorful produce gleams with promise of a “New You.”
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Add Pineapple Water to Your Daily Routine
Another Easy Way to Add Pineapple to Your Life
If you haven’t noticed by now, we just love to talk about pineapples! Especially as it pertains to the numerous health benefits adding them to your daily diet can bring.
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Back to School Pineapple Snacks & Crafts
Pineapple Snacks & Crafts that are Kid Approved
School may be around the corner, but that doesn’t mean the summer fun has to end. With Chestnut Hill Farms Pineapples, you can extend the sweetness of summer with creative pineapple snacks and crafts.
Brighten up the day with a sweet snack or a color art piece using imagination and pineapples.
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Throw the Perfect Pineapple Summer Luau

Celebrate Summer with Pineapple
With Memorial Day now in the rearview mirror, it’s safe to say that the summer season is officially here. Summer brings along many fan favorites like pool parties, grilling, time spent with loved ones, and of course, pineapples. Pineapples are the perfect tropical muse to sweeten up your summer luau this year. Bursting with flavor and rich in nutrients, not only are pineapples delectable, they’re good for your health too. So, grab your fruit, leis, and grass skirts and get ready to cool down while living it up at your Perfect Pineapple summer luau.
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Sweeten Your Summer With Pineapple Salad

Pineapple Meets Vegetables for a Taste Explosion
We all love a lil’ somethin’ sweet. Especially in the summer, it can be tempting to reach for an ice cream cone. However, there are other food combinations that can be just as sweet, without the calories and added sugars. Creating a tasty pineapple salad will keep you refreshed by the pool, at the beach, and relaxing with friends.
Pineapples are a beneficial fruit for our bodies because they are high in vitamin C, B6, and magnesium. Especially while sweating in the hot summer sun, we can use every nutrient we can get. When trying to eat healthy it is great to have those extra vitamins and even better when it comes from something as delicious as pineapple.
It’s not all about the pineapple! Salad greens contain many vitamins and healthy components key to a well-rounded diet. Greens contain vitamin A and C, calcium, and fiber and are naturally low in calories and sodium.
There are many different ways to create a perfect pineapple summer salad fit for any occasion. Feel free to experiment with the different ingredient lists, toss everything together, and voila—a culinary masterpiece!
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Celebrate the Summer Months with Grilled Pineapple

Try These Grilled Pineapple Recipes This Summer
The sun is shining, the weather is beautiful, and there’s no better way to soak it up than spending time outdoors. Don’t limit your outdoor time to relaxing in the pool, getting active, and fishing – get cooking outside too, with grilled pineapple!
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How Pineapples Can Enhance Your Weight Loss Journey

Add a Tropical Twist to Your Weight Loss Journey
The world’s worst kept secret is probably that pineapples have a ton of health benefits. They’re loaded with key nutrients like vitamin C, assist in boosting your immunity, and contain disease-fighting antioxidants. Did you know our favorite citrus fruit can also enhance your weight loss journey? The natural properties of pineapple can save you calories and assist with burning fat.
Read along to learn more about how pineapple is great for your health and can aid in weight loss.
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Gut Health: How Pineapples Can Improve Your Gut Health

Stress Can Affect Gut Health
We blame the brain as the source of all of our stress, but the truth is that our gut health holds more anxiety and stress than we realize.
The idea that our well-being can come from our stomachs is based on sound evidence. Up to 95% of our serotonin (a.k.a. the happy hormone) is made in the gut, along with trillions of other bacteria that produce different neurochemicals for our brains to learn, remember and regulate mood.
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Tagged bloating, body physique, fitness, gut health, health, pineapple, pineapple health, pineapple recipes
Immune System Benefits of Pineapple

How Pineapple Can Boost Your Immune System and Combat Against Diseases (Including COVID-19)
Prickly on the outside, yet sweet on the inside, pineapples are delicious fruits with many more immune system benefits than meet the eye. Your first thought may be floating in a pool with a sugary drink, but these tropical beauties are actually a great way to sneak a variety of vitamins and nutrients into your diet. Crush them up into a smoothie, cook them up with game day treats, or just eat them raw, you can’t go wrong!
Old tales from sailors say that fruit like pineapples would prevent scurvy when adventuring on the high seas. Now, thanks to modern scientific research, we have learned that pineapples do, in fact, help prevent viral infections.
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Pineapple For Heart Health

It’s Not About Age, Heart Health Always Matters
What does it mean to be healthy today? While most people often associate health with maintaining a certain physique or body strength, the truth is that our relationship with our bodies is deeper than we realize, and everything we consume affects our bodies in many different ways. Heart health is also a very important factor in our health.
American Heart Month is a great opportunity to renew our relationship with our body and learn how to look at it through a different lens. By incorporating heart-healthy fitness into our understanding of health, we are making sure that this muscle can continue to pump blood to the rest of the body and deliver essential nutrients and, most importantly, oxygen.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 16.3 million Americans aged above 20 years old are living with coronary heart disease (CHD). The American Heart Association also states that heart disease is the number 1 killer in women, causing 1 in 3 deaths each year.
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