Fresh ‘Gold’ pineapples (Ananas comosus L. Merrill) imported from Costa Rica were bought at a local supermarket in Lleida, Spain (approximately 15–20 d after harvesting, 7–10 ◦C during transport). Shell color stage was where several to most of the shell eyes were partially filled with yellow color, all of them surrounded by green (De la Cruz-Medina and García, 2007). Fruit were stored at 11 ± 1 ◦C overnight prior to processing