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
Fruit Column Fruit Column The fruit column (German: "Fruchtsäule") is a 26 metre high wood column decorated with fruits in Stuttgart, Germany. It weighs 3.5 tons and is remains the landmark of the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart although it is towered by numerous roundabouts. Already at the first celebration in 1818 there was a fruit column as landmark, which had been sketched and built by the master of building of yards of Wuerttemberg at that time, Nikolaus Thouret. After the First World War, with which beginning of the first German republic became, the fruit column was banned as "monarchistic" leftover from the