For pineapple fruit, the optimal temperatures are 10 ◦C (Jobling, 2000) in general, but very
often they are prepared, shipped and stored below 10 ◦C (Medina, 2004). Until now very few studies have been published regarding the influence of lower temperature on quality of harvested pineapple fruit. Adisa (1986) recorded that pineapple fruit stored at 5, 10 and 15 ◦C could delay the loss of ascorbic acid, but we did not obtain information for other parameters of quality at low temperature. Joseph-Adekunle et al. (2009) reported pineapple fruit kept
at 10, 27 and 37 ◦C and then texture and flavor were better for storage temperature at 10 ◦C than 27 and 37 ◦C, although they did not find the effects of low temperature on other qualities