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P van Rijckevorsel wrote:
Beverly Erlebacher schreef
Well, yesterday I had the opportunity to eat a really ripe, some might
say overripe, pineapple, and I'm here to tell you that this extremely
sweet and juicy fruit had no apparent proteolytic effect on the mucous
membranes of my mouth. So I hypothesize that like many other fruits,
the feeding deterrent is no longer present at the time the seeds are
ready for dispersal, and the "purpose" of bromelain is to keep animals
from eating the fruit before maturity.

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As likely an explantion as any!

Hrmph! What's with this damning with faint praise? It's a likelier
explanation than many, if not most! ;-)

I dunno what the universe is composed of and I don't think A.Plutonium
does either.