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For the Month of April we are Featuring: 
Pineapple
 
 
Menu
 
You Will Receive Your Choice of Beverage
 
A Fresh Asian Shrimp, Pineapple, and Peanut Salad
 
A Pineapple-Glazed Chicken served with a Pineapple Salsa
Accompanied by a Sweet Potato Pancake Topped with a Mango-Pineapple Chutney
 
For Dessert you will be presented with
Broiled Pineapple Drizzeled with a Rum-Carmel Sauce
and Topped with Macadamia Toffee
 
$25 per person (Price includes tax & Gratuity)
Reservation Preferred
This lunch is only available Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, & Friday
from 11:00am-3:00pm
 
 
 
 
 
 
What is a Pineapple?
 
You may think a pineapple is a single fruit but
 it actually is 100-200 fruitlets from separate flowers gathered around a single stalk.
A pineapple has yellow flesh. 
 Its acididty varies from tart to mild. 
 It is deliciously sweet.
Hawaii and Florida were once
prime suppliers of pineapples to the United States,
 but now we primarily get them from Central
and South America as well as Mexico.
An interesting fact about pineapple is
that it keeps gelatin desserts from firming,
 due to an enzyme in raw pineapple called bromelain.
 
How to Buy and Store
 
Once a pineapple is picked
 it doesn't get any riper or sweeter, it will only soften. 
A good pineapple should have a fresh fragrance, feel heavy, and give slightly when pressed at the base. 
The color of the pineapple doesn't matter. 
They are green-tinged, gold tinged, or somewhere in between.  A whole pineapple will keep at room temperaturefor a few days.  Once peeled, cored, and cut up, it will last in the fridge for about a week.
Health Benefits
 
Pineapple is a good sorce of fiber and supplies 25% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin C in one cup.
Pineapple is a digestive aid.  Fresh pineapples are rich in bromelain. Bromelain has demonstrated significant anti-inflammatory properties. It reduces swelling in inflammatory conditions such as acute sinusitis, sore throat, arthritis and gout, and it speeds recovery from injuries and surgery.  Also Pineapple can prevent blood clot formation because of its bromelain content.
 
Pineapple is Beneficial
 also in the following conditions :
  1. It regulates the gland and is found to be helpful in cases of goiter(enlargement of the thyroid gland).
  2. Dyspepsia (chronic digestive disturbance).
  3. Bronchitis (inflammation of the bronchial tubes.)
  4. Catarrh (secretions from mucous membranes).
  5. High Blood pressure.
  6. Arthritis (diseases of the joints)
  7. Fresh pineapple juice is also used in removing intestinal worms.
  8. Fresh pineapple juice has been used to combat diptheria and other infections of the throat or other parts of the body.
  9. Prevents nausea (includes morning sickness and motion sickness), Take 230 cc. of pineapple juice or papaya juice.
  10. Constipation