TPA results suggested that juice leakage of fresh-cut pineapple pieces does not affect their response to the unidirectional
compression force (hardness and fragility). Our results for TPA, color and translucency of fresh-cut pineapple pieces through time agreed with the results obtained by Lana et al. (2006) in fresh-cut tomatoes. These authors reported very small changes in fresh-cut tomato firmness during storage at low temperature (5 ◦C) even though translucent tissue appeared after 1 or 2 d of storage. They did not find evidence of cell membrane or cell wall degradation and suggested that translucency could be explained by physical phenomena (diffusion of water and solutes) and the response to stress-related compounds produced