Maui Gold® Pineapple – available only from Maui Pineapple Company – is a new variety of Maui pineapple that is naturally sweet, with a low acid content, a rich golden color, and a deliciously sweet pineapple aroma and taste. Maui Gold is also exceptionally nutritious, providing 3 times the Vitamin C of traditional pineapple. Maui Gold can be found on the mainland in both West Coast and Midwest markets. You can also purchase fresh Maui Gold Pineapple online here and have it express shipped anywhere within the continental U.S.


The Birth of Maui Gold

In the early 1900s, the Pineapple Research Institute embarked on a lengthy hybridization program to replace the Cayenne or Champaka canning type with a hardier and higher-yielding fruit. The extra sweet gold strain of pineapple resulted in the early 1980s after 60 years of meticulous plant breeding, keen field observations, and evaluations of hundreds of thousands of pineapple varieties. Dr. David Williams, former research director of Maui Pineapple Company, and Calvin Oda, current senior vice president of product development, discovered the Maui Gold variety growing amongst thousands of plants. After many years of additional research & development and agricultural improvements, Maui Pineapple Company introduced the Maui Gold pineapple variety to the market in 1996.

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