Ananas are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including "Batrachedra comosae", which feeds exclusively on "A. comosus". The word "Ananas" is derived from the Guarani name for the pineapple, via Portuguese. In most Old World languages, pineapple is called "ananas. "Ananas" species contain both bromelain and papain to which they owe their meat-tenderizing properties. The fruit and roots are used by some peoples as anti-inflammatory, proteolytic agent, and a root decoction for diarrhea. The biggest producers of pineapples in 2014 were Costa Rica (2.9 million tonnes), Brazil (2.6) and the Philippines (2.5). Ananas Ananas is a
Boletellus ananas although he admitted it was impossible to come to any definitive conclusions until mature fruit bodies and spore prints were available for study. Rolf Singer and colleagues (1992) suggested the name "Boletellus coccineus" for "Boletellus ananas". Singer created this name, however, in the mistaken belief that the earliest available name for the taxon was "Boletus coccineus", proposed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1838. However, Fries’s name is an illegitimate later homonym (compare with "Boletus coccineus", named by Bulliard in 1791), and Singer’s combination is actually based on "Strobilomyces coccineus", named by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1888. The earliest available name