New Fruit Makes its Way to UK Supermarkets

The pineberry is said to combine the shape and texture of a strawberry with a flavour and smell closer to that of a pineapple, reports the Daily Mail.

Grown in glasshouses, pineberries start off green, gradually turning paler as they ripen.

When the fruit is sweet and juicy enough to eat, the flesh is almost totally white but studded with red seeds — the reverse of the usual variety of strawberries.

Discovered wild in South America and rescued from extinction by Dutch farmers, they can now be bought in Waitrose, in the UK.