Gold
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In the early 1920s, the Pineapple Research Institute of Hawai‘i embarked on a lengthy hybridization program to replace the Cayenne or Champaka pineapple, a canning variety, with a hardier and higher-yielding fruit. The result was an extra sweet golden strain of pineapple developed in the 1980s after 60 years of meticulous plant breeding, keen field observations and evaluations of hundreds of thousands of pineapple varieties.
