Raw fresh unripe pineapple occupies a singular position in the Primal Diet as one of the most therapeutically powerful and enzymatically active foods available. It is not consumed as a casual fruit or a source of fuel, it is consumed as medicine, a targeted enzymatic agent with the capacity to dissolve hardened fat, break up lymphatic congestion, cleanse the liver and pancreas, assist intestinal detoxification, remove plaque from arteries and intestines, address hepatitis, reverse arteriosclerosis, support cholesterol detoxification, combat alcoholism cravings, help cancer detoxification, assist in the treatment of eye conditions, and facilitate a wide range of other remediation processes throughout the body.

Aajonus consistently distinguished pineapple from all other fruits by its unparalleled enzymatic potency. No other raw food he discussed in this context contained the same concentration and type of enzymes capable of directly breaking down hardened, solidified, cooked, or crystallized fats and removing them from lymphatic tissue, arterial walls, intestinal linings, and organ tissue. Because of this extraordinary potency, pineapple also carries significant risks if consumed incorrectly, particularly without adequate raw fat, and particularly in its ripe state, and must be approached with precision and awareness.

As Aajonus stated: "Pineapple is the best thing" for waste products in intestinal tissues combined with lymphatic congestion. He also said flatly: "The unripe pineapple is an important part of that. Pineapple is a very important part." Yet in the same breath he stressed that pineapple causes more over-emotionality than any other raw food, making it a double-edged tool that must be wielded carefully. He consistently described it as best used for a purpose, not eaten freely as a general food, and always with substantial fat.

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Unripe pineapple's therapeutic power is concentrated in its enzyme content. Aajonus explained that when fruit is unripe, "lots of enzymes" are present and sugar content is low. This is "the way all animals eat. Even birds, they eat everything unripe." The enzyme profile in unripe pineapple is dramatically different from ripe pineapple, unripe is high in enzymes and low in sugar; ripe has converted much of that enzymatic potential into sugars and alcohol.

The enzymes in raw unripe pineapple are so potent that Aajonus warned they can dissolve living tissue: "Never force anybody to eat any more than they can, because I've seen mouths start bleeding from the acidity. The enzymes are so strong that they can dissolve tissue." He also noted: "If you touch a large amount of it and blister your mouth, it will cause bleeding, bleeding tongue."

He explicitly stated: "Pineapple breaks down fat better than papaya. The papain is mostly for...", indicating pineapple's enzymatic superiority over papaya specifically in the context of fat breakdown.

The core biochemical role of raw unripe pineapple in the body is to supply the liver and pancreas with the enzymes they need to remove hardened fat properly. Hardened fat includes: - Crystallized hydrogenated oils that have solidified at body temperature and will not become fluid again below 102–105°F - Stored cooked cholesterol (toxic cholesterol bound with toxins) - Lymphatic congestion, hardened lymphatic material - Arterial plaque and intestinal impaction - Cellulite and other toxic fatty storages

Aajonus explained that hydrogenated and processed fats, including margarine and vegetable oils like safflower and sunflower oil, "crystallize in the body and will not become fluid at body temperature anymore. It takes 102 to 105 degrees to get them to melt." These hardened fats block the lymphatic system and produce "all kinds of problems." The enzymes in pineapple work in conjunction with heat therapy (baths) and raw fats to mobilize and remove these blockages.

He noted that eating "fresh raw unripe pineapple gradually removes stored cooked cholesterol (toxins) from body tissues" when combined with many years of consuming raw fats, raw meats, and other raw foods. During this detoxification, blood cholesterol levels will temporarily soar as "some toxic cholesterol enters the blood to be carried to the bowels and dumped there, or through the skin." He called this cause for celebration, not alarm.

For hepatitis, which Aajonus described as a severe liver detoxification occurring in people who lack "a particular fat processing enzyme", raw fresh unripe pineapple is the primary food remedy: "The missing enzyme can be replaced by eating raw fresh unripe pineapple often." He specified eating pineapple twice daily as often as possible to supply the liver with enzymes that "make its work easier while it cleanses and rebuilds itself."

For people with alcohol cravings due to an inability to digest fat, a type prone to hepatitis, "eating a little unripe pineapple with raw fat usually supplies enzymes for fat digestion and stops the craving for alcohol."

For arteriosclerosis, the pineapple assists digestion, assimilation, and utilization of fats in the arterial and lymphatic environment.

Aajonus stated: "The pineapple will help cleanse the intestines of the debris that's causing a lot of complication." He distinguished between papaya (which provides enzymes for the intestines, particularly via its custard preparation) and pineapple, suggesting alternating between the two, "one day to the other, the papaya or the pineapple, then you'll facilitate the intestines quicker."

He also noted that for lymphatic congestion combined with intestinal waste products: "Pineapple is the best thing." For intestinal hardening specifically: "if you've got a lot of hardening in the intestines, then pineapple is good for that." For intestinal plaque removal specifically, pineapple appeared in juice formulas designed to "Remove Impactions (Plaque) From Arteries And Intestines."

After volatile and ineffective fluid conditions have been corrected in colitis, "eating a smoothie made with eggs and unripe pineapple once daily helps to cleanse other toxins from intestines."

Raw unripe pineapple is the centerpiece food of Aajonus's lymphatic bath protocol. He explained that when the lymphatic system is congested with hardened hydrogenated fats, the body needs both external heat to melt the congestion and internal enzymatic action from pineapple to prevent the melted material from re-hardening. He described the pineapple-fat mixture as traveling into the lymphatic system during and after the hot bath, moving into the fluid space created by the heat before it can harden again.

He stated: "By the time you're taking that walk, that pineapple coconut mixture's going to be in your lymphatic system moving in there. While that little bit of lymph space is still fluid. So when it moves in there, it can't harden when it re-cools."

Aajonus listed "raw fresh pineapple" among the alkalizing foods: "Except for wheat grass juice, all edible raw fresh vegetable juices, raw fruits and raw fresh fruit puree are alkalizing. Raw fresh tomatoes, raw fresh figs, raw fresh pineapple, raw fresh lemons and raw fresh..." Though acidic in nature, pineapple alkalizes the tissues. He noted specifically: "pineapple is still acidic so it's in harmony with the body. You have to remember that we are carnivores, not herbivores, so we want a 5.5 pH blood, urine and saliva."

"Unripe pineapple, or any unripe fruit that is appealing, can often be substituted for orange" in the context of detoxifying cancers. Aajonus described it as part of the larger framework where "protein, unripe fruit and green vegetable juices are essential catalysts" alongside raw fats (which are 80% responsible for eliminating accumulated dead cells that cause cancer).

"Many years of eating those fats, raw meats and fresh unripe pineapple gradually remove stored cooked cholesterol (toxins) from body tissues." Aajonus was explicit that this is a long-term process, "many years", not a short course.

Aajonus identified over-emotionality as the primary side effect of pineapple, and specifically identified ripeness as the primary driver: "Ripe pineapple creates more over emotionality." He explained: "Pineapple calls more over-emotionality than any other food. I'm not talking about alcohol. Those aren't foods. I'm talking about raw foods. Pineapple, ripe pineapple will cause over-emotionality if you eat even a half a cup every day in a row for about 10 days, you're going to find yourself over-emotional. Do not do that."

He also noted that having pineapple with fat substantially reduces the over-emotionality tendency: "You're having it with fat, so it's going to lower that tendency. But just to be on the safe side, it's better to be more unripe than ripe."

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Aajonus was unambiguous: "It's always better unripe. Because it's not so... Pineapple creates more over emotionality than any other fruit. Ripe pineapple creates more over emotionality." The unripe state means: - High enzyme content - Low sugar content - Less alcoholic content (ripe pineapple has begun fermenting into alcohol) - Less over-emotionality - Greater medicinal utility

He described the ideal visual characteristics: "green hard pineapple", the pineapple should be green on the outside and white inside. He stated explicitly: "it's white inside and not yellow. That means it's high in enzymes, low in sugar."

He explained: "it's always best to get unripe fruit. Remember the ripe fruit is high in sugar. It means a lot of sugar byproducts to get in the blood. If it's unripe, lots of enzymes. It's the way all animals eat."

Aajonus described green pineapple that is "soft and mushy" as having "been sitting around a long time and it'll be yellow or brown inside, too ripe, too much alcohol." This makes it non-functional as a medicinal food and exacerbates the over-emotionality problem. A green exterior does not guarantee unripe interior, the inside must be examined and it must be white, not yellow or brown.

When fresh is not available, Aajonus acknowledged that sun-dried fruits may be substituted, but they "lack bioactive enzymes and have high sugar levels that may cause over-emotionality." For "live pineapple", meaning fresh, he clarified: "When I use 'live' referring to raw fruit, I mean that the fruit should not be cooked or dried. For instance, live pineapple denotes that the pineapple should be fresh."

Aajonus used "live pineapple" and "fresh raw pineapple" interchangeably to mean pineapple that is not cooked, not dried, and not heated above 104°F. This is distinguished from any processed, heated, canned, or juiced-commercially form.

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Aajonus was asked directly: "Is it OK to eat conventional pineapples, if organic are not available, due to their pretty thick skin?" His answer: "Yes, but you have to scrub them with a vegetable brush and warm water before you cut into them."

He separately addressed the preparation of non-organic pineapple in his recipe books: "If pineapple is not organic, wash outside of pineapple with brush and lukewarm water."

Aajonus issued an extremely serious warning about a specific pesticide or herbicide applied to conventional pineapple fields, which he described as "really a humicide." He stated:

"When you come in direct contact with that, it causes bleeding out of every orifice. You bleed out the eyes, the ears, the nose, the mouth, vaginal cavity, urinary tract, nails, everywhere in your body, you will bleed. Now, they're supposed to clean that completely off of the pineapples when it gets to you, but let me tell you, they're not responsible. They don't care enough to take the time to be thorough about it."

He described workers in pineapple fields who "start loading them up as they are packing" and "get all of this stuff on them and they can start bleeding from the nose." He instructed: "you need to wash it off before you slice it circularly."

He also described how to identify contaminated vs. natural pineapple: "there's a natural white powder also on natural pineapples, but that powder, once it's been contaminated with that, you just get a little bit around your cheeks, and you start flushing red, that's that contamination that has not" been adequately removed.

Aajonus gave very specific slicing instructions to preserve the juice and enable storage:

1. Do not remove the outer skin before slicing 2. Slice pineapple circularly, cut circular slices across the fruit 3. "Put it face down on the plate and that will seal it. It preserves it." 4. Cut the rind away only from the circular slice you intend to eat at that time 5. "You don't take the outside skin off. You cut a slice at a time and just trim that circular slice that you are eating at the time." 6. "To retain juice in pineapple, slice and dice pineapple with sawing motion."

He emphasized: "If you slice it that way, you can put it face down on a plate and that'll seal it. So it doesn't spoil quickly."

He noted that pineapple sealed face-down on a plate keeps well: "You can put it in the refrigerator too if you like on the plate." When asked if refrigeration matters, he said: "It's okay if it's in the refrigerator. That doesn't matter."

He described storing a whole pineapple by cutting circular slices: "About a half-inch circular slice every day... you can cut it circularly, flatten it on a plate like that and it will seal itself so you can keep it for quite a while. You can put it in the refrigerator too if you like on the plate."

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Aajonus was categorical that pineapple must never be eaten alone and must always be accompanied by significant raw fat. This is both for safety and for efficacy:

For Safety: "You cannot eat pineapple alone. It will blister your mouth. It will cause bleeding, bleeding tongue, stuff like that. So you have to blend it with something. And you cannot just eat it. I don't care if you are eating cheese or something, you just cannot eat it by itself. You have to blend it in something."

He gave the acceptable pairing liquids for blending: "raw cream if it's available, raw eggs, raw milk, or with oil."

For a person who is very thin and very acidic: "you have to blend it with something. You cannot eat pineapple alone. It will blister your mouth."

For Over-Emotionality Control: "Because pineapple can cause over-emotionality more than any other fruit, you have to make sure it's with lots of fat and that it's for a purpose."

"You're having it with fat, so it's going to lower that tendency."

For over-emotionality from firm or solid corpulence protocol: "be certain to consume enough raw cheese with unsalted raw butter, raw cream and lots of raw meat."

For Preventing Mineral Depletion: "Always eat fat. You want to clean faster? This is where you put your major amount of coconut cream. 3-4 tablespoons... Always eat fat with your fruit so the fruit sugar doesn't rush through you and start demineralizing your blood and your whole system."

For Proper Digestion: Aajonus noted: "If there isn't pineapple with that meat meal, you're not going to digest the cream." This reverses the usual framing, in some contexts, the pineapple enables digestion of fat rather than just being buffered by it.

The most frequently mentioned fat pairings with pineapple, in approximate order of frequency: - Coconut cream: The most commonly specified pairing, particularly for lymphatic congestion. "Coconut cream and pineapple maybe every other day." - Raw dairy cream (whipped or unwhipped): Frequently specified alongside coconut cream - Unsalted raw butter: Often included in three-way combination with coconut cream and dairy cream - Avocado: "live pineapple with avocado" - Raw eggs: Used in smoothie preparations - Raw cheese: Mentioned as a pairing to prevent over-emotionality - Stone-pressed olive oil: Mentioned in specific formulas

Aajonus described the role of each fat: - Cream: "The cream is going to help soothe everything and help wash it. It's going to be the soap to help pull it out." - Olive oil: "And the olive oil also will really rip it out. It's a great solvent." - Honey: "the honey is going to take on a property of soothing the activity of the pineapple, the destruction of the pineapple."

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Aajonus explained that freckles and liver spots are "contaminated glandular cells that have left the inside of the body." They are not completely dead, so they still function as skin but no longer perform their original function (bile production, enzyme production, insulin production). "The body just throws them out on the skin. You can reverse that pigmentation just by putting pineapple on it every couple of days."

Protocol: - "Just take the little piece of pineapple, rub it on, let it dry. That's it." - Once a day, specifically alternating pineapple one day and something else (like apple cider vinegar) the next - "Don't put so much pineapple on it that you burn your skin. And it will burn your skin if you put too much." - "Lightly when you put it on."

Results described: "it started peeling off, layer at a time. Now it's flat, half the darkness that it was, and now it's brown instead of black, and it's just flat, no inflammation around."

Warning on topical frequency: "Some people don't like the abrasiveness of pineapple. If you put pineapple twice a day, you're going to have irritation. It's too abrasive."

Alternative for those sensitive to pineapple's abrasiveness: "Some people will put whey on these, and it'll help dissolve it a little bit slower."

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Formula: "You can put a little bit of pineapple in some butter and then blend it. And I mean it's like, say you have two ounces of butter and you have a little sugar-cube-sized pineapple. Blend that together and rub that into her skin. That will help also."

Ripeness for topical use: "Does the pineapple need to be on the slightly green side? No. Okay. It can be medium ripe. In fact, if it's yellow for the skin, it probably would be even better because it's slightly alcoholic, alcohol-rich. And the body uses alcohols to break down certain substances in the back to digest it."

Note: This is one of the few instances where Aajonus specified that medium-ripe or even slightly ripe pineapple is preferable, specifically for topical skin application involving breakdown of substances.

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While discussing a mole that was being treated with vinegar, Aajonus mentioned: "some people don't like the abrasiveness of pineapple." This implies pineapple is an alternative method for treating moles alongside or in place of vinegar.

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Aajonus repeatedly described circular slices as the standard unit. He referenced: - "⅛ of an inch to ½ inch depending upon your size and less is better", a circular slice for lymphatic purposes - "A quarter-inch thick circular, unripe", for someone with lymphatic congestion receiving a conservative dose - "½-inch circular slice", a standard maintenance amount referenced multiple times - "About a half-inch circular slice every day" when working through a whole pineapple over 10 days - "Sugar-cube sized", for topical use or for digestive assistance in specific gentle protocols - "2-inch cube of semi-ripe", for candida/lactic acid - "Inch by inch cube" every five hours, for very gentle ongoing digestive support

• Firm corpulence protocol: ½ raw unripe pineapple daily for 2 weeks
• Arteriosclerosis: ½–1 cup with ¼ cup coconut cream daily, up to 7 days
• Lymphatic bath: ¼ cup to 1 cup depending on height
• Eye protocol: ¾ cup in smoothie with 4 eggs and 8 tablespoons honey, 2–3 times daily for several days, then once daily for 10 more days
• Hepatitis: ¾ cup in smoothie twice daily
• Conservative/reactive individual: Two small squares or wedges twice a week only
• Digestive support (general): "Maybe every other day", not daily
• Gentle maintenance: Inch-by-inch cube every five hours
• Tars: ¾ cup, 5 days a week with adequate fat

Aajonus gave the following explicit frequency warnings: - "Do not" eat half a cup daily for 10 days in a row, causes over-emotionality - "Have pineapple maybe every other day" for digestive problems and lymphatic cleaning - "Only once a day" for concentrated therapeutic protocols - "Maybe twice a week" for reactive individuals - "Only once a week" for severely weakened individuals

Aajonus managed pineapple dosing strategically: "I measure it out so I get it to do what I want it to do and they don't get burned out on the pineapple." He warned against giving people too much at once because they would refuse to eat it for therapeutic purposes thereafter.

Aajonus indicated that the body will self-regulate: "When your body has had enough, it will say, 'That's enough.'" He said for people not in extreme conditions: "Eat as much as you want." However, extreme conditions require measured, carefully rationed amounts to prevent burning out and prevent over-emotionality.

Aajonus stated: "80% fats, 5% sugar. That's all it takes. So you can take that big a pineapple and five times fat you'll need to utilize that properly." This provides a general ratio, approximately 5 parts fat to 1 part pineapple (by caloric ratio or volume, not precisely specified), to properly buffer pineapple's enzymatic activity.

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Blend together: - ¼–1 cup unripe pineapple (based on height, see protocol section) - 3–6 tablespoons coconut cream - 1–3 tablespoons unsalted raw butter - 1–2 tablespoons raw dairy cream

Drink slowly over 15–20 minutes, not in less than 15 minutes.

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• 2–3 raw eggs
• ¾ cup fresh unripe pineapple
• Blend together
• Optional: 8 tablespoons unheated honey (specified for the eye protocol version)

Consume 2–3 times daily for several days (eye version), twice daily (hepatitis version), or once daily (maintenance).

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• Juice of 5 limes
• 1 avocado
• 1 cup live pineapple (substituting for 4 kiwis)
• 4 tablespoons unheated honey
• Blend together

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• ½–1 cup unripe pineapple
• ¼ cup coconut cream
• Eat together daily for up to 7 days

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From Recipe for Living Without Disease: - 1 egg - 4 tablespoons raw cream - 3 tablespoons raw milk - 1½ ounces fresh pineapple - 1 tablespoon unheated honey - Blenderize together in 12-ounce jar on medium speed for 10 seconds - Pour into ice cream maker and churn until firm

From We Want to Live (fat-burning, energy-producing version): - 1½ pints raw cream - ¼–½ raw fresh pineapple - 1 or 2 raw eggs - 3–4 tablespoons unheated honey - Slice pineapple into little chunks - Blend 1 cup pineapple chunks with eggs and honey - Stir remaining pineapple chunks and cream into blended mixture - Pour into ice cream maker

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• 4 ounces raw cream
• 7 fresh berries
• ¼ cup diced fresh pineapple
• 1 teaspoon unheated honey (optional)
• Blenderize cream and honey in 8-ounce jar on low speed until stiff
• Place fruit in bowl and top with whipped cream

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• 4 ounces raw cream
• ⅛ peeled and seeded small papaya
• ⅛-inch circular slice fresh pineapple
• 1 teaspoon unheated honey
• Blenderize cream and honey in 4-ounce jar on low speed until stiff
• Fold diced fruit into whipped cream, or top diced fruit with whipped cream

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• 4 ounces coconut cream
• ⅛ peeled and seeded small papaya
• ⅛-inch circular slice fresh pineapple
• 1 teaspoon unheated honey (optional)
• Fold diced fruit into coconut cream, or top diced fruit with coconut cream

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For removing impactions from arteries and intestines: - 4 bunches fresh celery stalks (with leaves if not wilted) - 3 bunches fresh parsley, curly or Italian - 3 medium carrots - 3 ounces unheated honey - ½-inch circular slice pineapple, diced and blenderized separately into 8-ounce jar on medium speed for 10 seconds - Follow standard juicing instructions and add pineapple puree to the juice

Pineapple-to-juice ratio: 5% pineapple per cup of vegetable juice = approximately 1 tablespoon per cup. Aajonus specified: "You don't juice the pineapple. You puree it, and you pour it into the vegetable juice."

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• 5–8 ounces fresh ocean wild-caught raw fish
• Pineapple (⅓ cup, substituted for tomato)
• Coconut cream + lime juice sauce poured over
• Let marinate up to 8 hours or eat immediately

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"About every seven days, I like to go through a three-day cycle of having pineapple with either whipped cream..."

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• 2 ounces butter
• Sugar-cube-sized piece of pineapple
• Blend together
• Apply to skin or use as directed internally

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• Half to a whole cup hard green pineapple (white inside)
• 1–4 ounces coconut cream
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon dairy cream
• Blend together
• Alternative: replace components with all whipped cream if less detoxification desired

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"You can also put a couple tablespoons of lime juice with the pineapple mixture." This is described as an enhancement for lymphatic cleaning combined with intestinal plaque binding to "surround and bind with as many poisons as possible."

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Aajonus did not advocate juicing pineapple through a standard juicer. Instead, he specified pureeing pineapple in a blender and adding it to vegetable juice at a ratio of approximately 5% (about 1 tablespoon per cup). He gave specific instructions for blenderizing diced pineapple into an 8-ounce jar on medium speed for 10 seconds before incorporating it into larger juice formulas.

This preserved the fiber, enzymes, and full nutritional content of the pineapple in a way that juicing alone would not. The puree method retains what juicing discards.

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Aajonus described a chemical applied to conventional pineapple fields that he called "really a humicide", a substance so toxic that it causes humans to "bleed out of every orifice" upon direct contact. He described field workers who, in the process of loading pineapples for packing, would get this substance on them and start "bleeding from the nose."

He alleged that the cleaning process applied to pineapples before they reach consumers is inadequate: "they're not responsible. They don't care enough to take the time to be thorough about it."

He described identifying contaminated pineapples by a white powder: "there's a natural white powder also on natural pineapples, but that powder, once it's been contaminated with that, you just get a little bit around your cheeks, and you start flushing red, that's that contamination that has not" been removed.

His instructions for conventional pineapples: 1. Scrub with a vegetable brush and warm water before cutting 2. Wash before slicing circularly 3. Put face down on the plate after cutting, seal it 4. "They are supposed to clean that completely off of the pineapples when it gets to you", but they don't do it thoroughly

This is why Aajonus consistently preferred organic pineapple but acknowledged that conventional, properly washed pineapple is acceptable.

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