This week, Fresh Del Monte unveils Del Monte® Precious Honeyglow™, a personal-size fresh pineapple that is available nationwide year-round exclusively through Melissa's Produce.
The Precious Honeyglow is the latest in the company's line of Honeyglow pineapples, which offer a sweeter taste than traditional pineapples. Grown at specialty farms in Costa Rica, these pineapples are left to mature and ripen naturally on the plant for a few extra days, resulting in an extra sweet taste and radiant golden hue.
Precious Honeyglow is the most compact pineapple in Del Monte history, weighing between 1.5 and 2 pounds, about half the average weight of a full-size traditional fresh pineapple. The smaller piece of fruit offers consumers more choices in the variety and size of its fresh whole pineapple, to suit taste preferences and reduce food waste.
"We offer a range of pineapple options to suit consumer preferences, whether it's a sweeter taste, sustainability benefits or a range of sizes," said Melissa Mackay, Fresh Del Monte's vice president of marketing, North America. "This pineapple delivers everything that people love about Del Monte Honeyglow pineapples, such as its extra sweet taste and distinct color, in a compact single-serving size."
Precious Honeyglow is the most compact pineapple in Del Monte history, weighing between 1.5 and 2 pounds.
Single-person households are on the rise in the U.S., with more than 28 percent of American households now occupied by a single person – the second largest proportion of the population. Fresh Del Monte offers fresh pineapples in a range of varieties and sizes, to provide consumers with a broad range of options such as fruit size or desired sweetness. This lineup includes the Del Monte Gold® Extra Sweet Pineapple, which is twice as sweet as traditional varieties and features a beautiful golden flesh, available in multiple sizes including the Grandissimo Gold® grand pineapple. The company also offers a range of Honeyglow pineapples, which are hand-harvested at peak sweetness and ripeness and include regular sizes and smaller options such as the Mini Honeyglow® and Precious Honeyglow™.
The company's other fresh products include its proprietary PINKGLOW® variety of bright pink pineapple and Del Monte Zero™ Carbon Neutral Pineapples, which is certified by SCS Global Services – a global leader in third-party environmental and sustainability verification, certification, auditing, testing, and standards development. After a comprehensive assessment of Fresh Del Monte's Costa Rica pineapple production through shipment and sale to the North American and European markets, SCS Global Services determined that the designated DEL MONTE ZERO™ pineapples' greenhouse gas emissions have been negated by the reabsorption of Fresh Del Monte-owned forests, making those pineapples' carbon footprint net zero.
As with all Del Monte pineapples and other Fresh Del Monte products, sustainable practices for planting, harvesting and transporting Precious Honeyglow pineapples are used.
For more information:
Collin Whitley
Fresh Del Monte
cwhitley@rocketlaunchagency.com
https://delmontefresh.com/
https://www.melissas.com/products/precious-honeyglow-pineapples